Rory Stewart Quotes

This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

Rory Stewart

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• The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Company
  • motivation
  • German

• Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Disaster

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Inspiration
  • Evolution
  • Flow

• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Single
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Ideas
  • Independent
  • Company

• Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Long
  • Today
  • Moral

• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • New York

• I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Myself
  • Ideas
  • Laugh

• The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Pass

• When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Graduation

• It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • World
  • Future
  • Interesting

• You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Task

• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Success
  • Running
  • Failure

• Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Business
  • High
  • Father

• It's the subconcussive hits, the constant bam, bam, bam that linemen like Suh give and receive. Those are the hits scientists say cause the lasting damage to the brain, the kind of injuries that made guys like Mike Webster, Terry Long, and so many others go crazy. The subconcussive hits - every single play.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Long
  • Single
  • Crazy

• When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

  

  Moises Arias
  • Learning
  • Difficult
  • Director

• I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Life

• Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Style
  • Melodies
  • Pop Music

• This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.

  

  Rory Stewart
  • Ideas
  • Failure
  • Inspiration