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“Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes-it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.”
Source : "Alain Ducasse: 'No geniuses have ever come from the kitchen. We are simply the bridge between nature and our clients'". Interview with Eliza Anyangwe, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014. 
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“The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.”
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“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape”
Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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“Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.”
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“Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.”
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“Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.”
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“Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...”
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“If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.”
Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books
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“I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.”
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“[People say]'You're always happy' and I'm, like, sometimes I have a huge zit on my face. But if you smile, people won't notice that. I do have bad-hair days but if you feel confident in yourself it would make people want to be around you.”
