B. R. Hayden Quotes

The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.

B. R. Hayden

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• If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  

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• Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

  

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• In the late Middle Ages there were, no doubt, many persons in monasteries and convents who had no business there and should have been out in the world earning an honest living, but today it may very well be that there are many persons trying to earn a living in the world and driven by failure into mental homes whose true home would be the cloister.

  

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• The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Failure
  • Proof
  • Stigma