“The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.”

—  Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top (2000)
Variant: Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

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