thought provoking

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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
-- Bill Bradley

I disagree with this guy. Failure sucks.

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I disagree with this guy. Failure sucks.

In life, if you don't fail you are not trying hard enough. If you want to do something hard, you will fail. You fail and fail and fail. At some point if you are lucky you succeed. If you do things that are easier you will see a mix of successes and failures. It is only if you coast through life that you won't see failure.

Failure is also an opportunity to learn and a chance to remember that you are human.

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In life I have learned more from failure then success. Success makes you proud and arrogant. Failure makes you humble and human.

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Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
-- Stephen King

[sweet_potatoes]

In life, if you don't fail you are not trying hard enough. If you want to do something hard, you will fail. You fail and fail and fail. At some point if you are lucky you succeed. If you do things that are easier you will see a mix of successes and failures. It is only if you coast through life that you won't see failure.

Failure is also an opportunity to learn and a chance to remember that you are human.

In life I have learned more from failure then success. Success makes you proud and arrogant. Failure makes you humble and human.

Fine, fine. Failure is useful, I GUESS. But nobody likes to fail. I'd rather succeed.

Edit: AND! Failure doesn't make ME humble. It just means you wasted your time and then you don't have initiative. For instance, I thought I had gotten a bad mark on my Biology test, so I got really disheartened and handed in my homework late (which, btw, results in 10% off your mark). So that's what failure does. It just makes you give up. (There's a happy ending to that story though: I found out that my teacher had accidentally taken 10 marks off of my test! So I hadn't gotten a bad mark!!!!! Then I felt stupid for purposely losing 10% off my homework. So I guess that the moral of this story is: if you think you have a bad mark even though you studied, talk to your teacher and then you'll find out that you didn't do that badly.)

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
-- Stephen King

Do normal people have enemies in real life? I don't think I have any. Do you?

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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
-- George Barzan

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
-- Charles Baudelaire

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
-- Queen Maria

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SP

I submitted an asisgnment for my dermatology course. I worked ahrd and put a lot of effort but failed. When I read the comments, the problem was not the knowledge but I ahd faield to understand what the examiner wanted and the way I had written was not correct. I learned for above that exam is not just about knowledge but producing the answer that the question demands and not what I want to write. I need to try and understand the question and its requirement. From that failure I learned to read questions more thoroughly.

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Do normal people have enemies in real life? I don't think I have any. Do you?

Yes normal people also have enemies. Something that I am not proud of , I am a controversial person. I have the habit of speaking my mind. It is not very diplomatic. I am certain I have loads of people that dislike me for that and perhaps some enemies as well. I need to work on remaining silent more.

Since when did you classify yourself as "normal"?

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SP

I submitted an asisgnment for my dermatology course. I worked ahrd and put a lot of effort but failed. When I read the comments, the problem was not the knowledge but I ahd faield to understand what the examiner wanted and the way I had written was not correct. I learned for above that exam is not just about knowledge but producing the answer that the question demands and not what I want to write. I need to try and understand the question and its requirement. From that failure I learned to read questions more thoroughly.

I learned to read questions in grade 1. Hehe. Just teasing you.

But seriously! That's awful. I hate when you work hard on something and then get a bad mark. Actually, I even hate when you don't work hard on something and get a bad mark. Once, in Chemistry, we had this test on my favourite unit (it was really really interesting -- Dynamic Equilibria), and I thought I was going to do SO well cuz it was super-easy, but then, I did really badly. Almost failed the test. It turned out that most of the stuff came from the textbook which I hadn't bothered to read, so I guess from that I learned: always read the textbook.

It was a really hard test though, so I didn't feel that bad. When my friend and I came out of it, we were laughing hysterically cuz it was just SOOOO bad. We both did awful. It's okay though.

OMG! And during the Chemistry practical exam, there was this question, and I racked my brains, and I came up with this really complex solution that took me like two pages to write, and then it turned out that I was wrong, and the correct answer was literally ONE LINE. So from that I learned: don't overthink. It kind of mad me mad though, cuz this boy hadn't studied at all and he just guessed and wrote down whatever, and he happened to be correct, whereas my friends and I thought about it and got it wrong, and we did study. So, I guess, don't study that much otherwise failing feels even worse.

It's fun analysing past experiences.

Yes normal people also have enemies. Something that I am not proud of , I am a controversial person. I have the habit of speaking my mind. It is not very diplomatic. I am certain I have loads of people that dislike me for that and perhaps some enemies as well. I need to work on remaining silent more.

That's not an ENEMY! That's just someone disliking you. That's not the same thing. An enemy is willing to kill you. I doubt someone's gonna kill you just cuz you offended them.

Staying silent is boring. It's more interesting when people talk.

Since when did you classify yourself as "normal"?

LOL!!!!!!!! I dunno, probably am normal....doesn't really matter. Sadiq_b said that we judge things by our frame of reference, and since the only frame of reference I have to judge normalcy is myself, then of course I'll think I'm normal. So there.

People who think they're special and unique are just kidding themselves. There are 7 billion people on this planet; one of them is bound to have the same personality as them.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
-- Charles Baudelaire

What does that mean?

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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
-- Charles Baudelaire

As I understand this quote lays emphasis on immortality.Every idea carries the potential of immortality, like a human being even though the human being is a mortal creation. Because form, ability or potential is independent of state of matter. Thus every man and every idea has potential of becoming immortal by being and doing.

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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
-- Charles Baudelaire

As I understand this quote lays emphasis on immortality.Every idea carries the potential of immortality, like a human being even though the human being is a mortal creation. Because form, ability or potential is independent of state of matter. Thus every man and every idea has potential of becoming immortal by being and doing.

That's so deep!! Thanks!!!

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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
-- Monty Python

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy

A young girl was asked: ''Whose preaching brought you to Christ?'' ''It wasn't anybody's preaching; it was Aunt Mary's practicing,'' she replied. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
-- George E. Mueller

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Words in haste do friendships waste.
-- Mark Twain

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde

We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
-- Paul Boese

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One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.
-- Source Unknown



When you grow older, you don't grow wiser; you merely learn to hide your ignorance better.
-- Source Unknown


Think then act safely.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
-- Cus D'Amato