#lure

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. ↗

— John Irving

#failing #failure #piggy-sneed #save #saving

Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners . . . their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated. ↗

— William Manchee

#failure #lack-of-experience #management #small-business #business

Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend. ↗

— Anita Diamant

#friend #friendship #minding-his-own-busines #business

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. ↗

— Ken Robinson

#failure #original #change

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ↗

— Sophocles

#character #course #crime #failure #mistakes

If you take responsibility and blame yourself, you have the power to change things. But if you put responsibility on someone else, then you are giving them the power to decide your fate. ↗

— Deja King

#change

What would you do if you were not afraid ? ↗

— Spencer Johnson

#fear-of-failure #change

[W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were. ↗

— Anthony Lane

#failure #learning #change

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#failure-to-communicate #communication

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#consciousness #discourse #failure #freudian-slips #lacan