Source: The Keeping Place
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”
“One definition of success might be refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger.”
"Where Epics Fail: Aphorisms on Art, Morality & Spirit" (2018)
“The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.”
“Success always demands a greater effort.”
Source: Their Finest Hour
“Live your vision and demand your success.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 26
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories
“Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.”
Source: Van Gogh
“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can.”
Source: Success! (1977), p. 284; a portion of this — "In order to succeed we must first believe that we can" — has become widely attributed to Nikos Kazantzakis on the internet, but without citation of any sources.
Context: The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
Contributions of Jane Wagner
