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I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26
times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed
over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.

—Michael Jordan, NBA legend

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of
failure.

—Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist and novelist

If you are not failing, you are not growing.

—H. Stanley Judd, author

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong
and good and competent. That’s the “halo effect.” Your first impression of a
thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you
may assume everything else they do is inept.

—Daniel Kahneman, psychologist and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

—Robert F. Kennedy, US senator and US attorney general