“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“So long as you refuse to ever acknowledge failure, success becomes eternal, a downward curve, always approaching failure, but never quite reaching it.”
—
John Hodgman
,
book
The Areas of My Expertise
September 11, 2007
The Areas of My Expertise (2005), Appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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