“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.122
“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor
“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”
Variant translations:
Time brings all things to pass.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
“Success doesn't change you; fame does.”
Whitney Houston (1963–2012) American singer, actress, model, and record producer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPItgCnamNg
Ivar Ekeland (1944) French mathematician
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 7, May The Best One Win, p. 138.
Cyril Connolly book Enemies of Promise
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 3: A Georgian Boyhood, Ch. 24: Vale (p. 259)
“On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.”
Daniel Levitin (1957) American psychologist
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.”
Albert Bandura book Self-Efficacy
[Self-efficacy: The exercise of control, Bandura, Albert, w:Albert Bandura, 1997, W. H. Freeman, New York, 9780716728504, http://books.google.com/books?id=eJ-PN9g_o-EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bandura+isbn:9780716728504&hl=en&ei=HAwYTbKsLpTmsQPp8cCPCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false] (p. 77)
“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit