"Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are."

-- Michelle Sagara

#Trying Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Failing Quotes

“I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.”
“Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.”
“The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.”
“I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.”
“One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial
“I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.”
“Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.”
“We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to sit in on discussions, aesthetic discussions at the pottery, which took place generally over tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. So we learned a lot just from being around there [with Bernard Leach ].”

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