Pirate Cinema
Variant: you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
“If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.”
Attributed to Watson in: Roger von Oech (1982), A Whack on the Side of the Head and Industrial participation (1987) Nr 594-603. p. 262.
Majority Report, July 22, 2005 broadcast
Majority Report
Context: You know George W. Bush is a war-time president, he says - proudly. Guess what. War is failure! When you are at war, you have failed! When you have gone to a war of choice and lied about it, you're a double-triple, triple-quadruple failure! Or a warlord. It's called a warlord in other countries. A war time president here. One man's ceiling I guess is another man's floor. George Bush is a warlord. He's a failure!
“tt>double value; /* or your money back! */short changed; /* so triple your money back! */</tt”
Source code, <code>cons.c</code>
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Trump interrupting a reporter who started a question with "The first of the month is next week ... " White House coronavirus task force briefing (April 19, 2020), Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript April 19 https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-press-conference-transcript-april-19
2020s, 2020, April
"N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II"
On Albums, I Am... (1999)
“You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
