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PS and PPS on failure

2013-01-09
Two quotes I omitted from the previous post on failure - JK Rowling (Harry
Potter) and Steve Jobs (that fruit company ;-) on their failures:

"Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to
myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my
energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded
at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the
one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had
been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I
adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became
a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J. K. Rowling

“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the
best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being
successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure
about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my
life”

- Steve Jobs in his Stanford commencement speech

JK Rowling of Harry Potter fame and Steve Jobs from
Apple

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