“Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.”
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Canadian writer and game designer 1964Related quotes
“For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in
full view.”
Source: The Sweetest Thing
Occasionally attributed to Walters; actually said by Earl Warren, as quoted in Sports Illustrated (July 22, 1968).
Misattributed
Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 304
“Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.”
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (1997)
“With the American failure came world failure.”
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293
“Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.”
“Opinion: Biden’s Afghanistan policy shows the world a wobbly, impulsive U.S.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/27/bidens-afghanistan-policy-shows-world-wobbly-impulsive-us/ The Washington Post, (Aug. 27, 2021)
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Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 16: Outlook Unsettled (p. 136-137)