One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.
Interpretation
Embracing failure can lead to personal resilience and acceptance.
This quote highlights the importance of accepting failures as a natural part of life. Tina Brown suggests that after experiencing setbacks, one can learn that such events do not define their worth or happiness, ultimately fostering a sense of resilience and self-acceptance.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech to encourage others to embrace their failures.
It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.
I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.
I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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