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Friday, 31 January 2025

"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."

–– Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French military officer and statesman

via: Sketchbook Q 17, 2024, p. 40.

"Fail more often in order to find out what you're capable of learning."

–– Milton Glaser (1929-2020), American graphic designer

Source: quiltscornerstone, Instagram, October 14, 2024.

via: Sketchbook P 16, 2024, p. 6.

"Ninety per cent of talent is confidence, an absence of judgement that feeds a willingness to fail that produces a greater likelihood of success."

–– Ian Brown (b. 1954), Canadian journalist and author

Source: Ian Brown. "Old skier, new tricks." The Globe and Mail, Saturday January 5, 2019, p.10-11; p. 11.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2019, p. 35.

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

–– Herman Melville (1819-1891) American novelist, best known for his novel Moby-Dick