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.
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.
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