The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
Even when you have doubts take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country he would have escaped.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept study advice and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
There are no mistakes save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Failure is a great teacher and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences then you've got something to share.
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive of course but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy or any of your time or any of your space.
Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial but an indispensable experience which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience so as much as someone can tell you things you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
Mistakes are painful when they happen but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line banishment from all the living and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.