It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
“Well-designed security systems fail gracefully.”
Bruce Schneier (1963) American computer scientist
Airport Security Failure, Schneier, Bruce, 2006-03-14, Schneier on Security, 2022-06-31 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/airport_securit_2.html, <br class="br">Human perception of reality, risk and terrorism
John Allen Fraser (1931) Canadian politician
Source: The House Of Commons At Work (1993), Chapter 4, The Office of Speaker of the House of Commons, p. 55
“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“Only when I fall do I get up again.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“There are those fallen who don’t get up so as not to fall again.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Voces (1943)
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
“[Chevy falls down, and gets up]LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!”
Chevy Chase (1943) American comedian, writer, and television and film actor
Attributed
James McBride (writer) (1957) American journalist
On the potential failure of writing in “James McBride: How I Write” https://www.writermag.com/writing-inspiration/author-interviews/james-mcbride-write/ in The Writer (2013 Dec 30)
