“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target”
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist
“He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.”
"Sir Bobby Robson: his most memorable quotes," 2009
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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur Schopenhauer book The World as Will and Representation
Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die Uebrigen nicht erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eines trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht ein Mal zu sehn vermögen...
Vol. II, Ch. III, para. 31 (On Genius), 1844
As cited in The Little Book of Bathroom Philosophy: Daily Wisdom from the Greatest Thinkers (2004) by Gregory Bergman, p. 137
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“Cupid is fat and slow and can't hit moving targets.”
Donald Miller (1971) American writer
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
“You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker
“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”
Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World
Variant: Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
“What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.”
Arthur Ransome book Great Northern?
Great Northern? (Chapter 9), 1947
“We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails.”
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 175).
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean