“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”
Pat Conroy book The Great Santini
Source: The Great Santini
“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”
Pat Conroy book The Great Santini
Source: The Great Santini
“If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.”
Terry Pratchett book Sourcery
Source: Sourcery
“I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.”
Romain Gary (1914–1980) French writer and diplomat
The Life and Death of Émile Ajar (1980), an essay written prior to his suicide, as quoted in "Romain Gary: A Short Biography" by Madeleine Schwartz, at The Harvard Advocate http://www.theharvardadvocate.com/content/romain-gary-short-biography <br class="br">Context: The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar… I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
“I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes”
Moira Lister (1923–2007) actress
Sunday Times interview (1983)
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
As quoted in The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (2003) by Oren Harari, p. 164.
2000s
“When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.”
Satya Nadella (1967) CEO of Microsoft appointed on 4 February 2014
Boy Genius Report: "When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" https://www.bgr.in/news/when-i-think-about-my-career-my-successes-are-built-on-learning-from-failures-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella/ (29 December 2015)
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)