Karla Cheatham Mosley Quotes
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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.
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.
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Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other.
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Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
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Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.
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That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?
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Although computer science tends to be thought of as a traditionally male-dominated field, the world’s first programmer was a woman.
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People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
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I don't think failure is to be overcome as much as it is to be learned from.
