I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.
Arianna HuffingtonRead
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
Interpretation
Failure is an essential step in the journey to achieving success.
This quote emphasizes that failure should not be viewed as a setback but rather as an integral component of the path to success. It suggests that each failure brings valuable lessons and experiences that contribute to eventual success, reinforcing the idea that perseverance through challenges is crucial for growth and achievement.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire resilience in the face of setbacks.
I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.
Don't buy society’s definition of success. Because it’s not working for anyone. It’s not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It’s only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, sleeplessness and high blood pressure.
Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout - both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-macho world of STEM is a great place to start.
Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it's the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.
Nobody ever remembers who finished second at anything.
There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set _x000D_ out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed _x000D_ that would pay the bills.
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
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