Variant: You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
“Don't let your failures define you.”
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business Commencement Address (2013)
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.”
“If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
The Camelot Project interview (1996)
Context: When the legend is retold, it mirrors the reality of the time, and one can learn from studying how various authors have attempted to retell the story. I don't think we have an obligation to change it radically. I think that if we ever move too far from the basic story, we would lose something very precious. I don't, for instance, approve of fantasy that attempts to go back and rewrite the Middle Ages until it conforms to political correctness in the twentieth century. That removes all the benefit from reading the story. If you don't understand other people in their time and why they did what they did, then you don't understand your own past. And when you lose your past, you lose some potential for your own future.
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)
