A Quote by Charles Horton Cooley

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

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Art Success Artist Cannot Fail

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Charles Horton Cooley
American - Sociologist
1866 - 1928

Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.

Robert Kiyosaki

The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

Robert Kiyosaki

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

Reshma Saujani

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

Bruce Barton

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

Christian Keiber

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Marcel Proust

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

Bernie Siegel

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

Kenneth Baker

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

Samuel Beckett

Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

Said Nursi

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Carl von Clausewitz

For me, I think failing is great, because if you fail fast and you learn how to fail, you can use that to build your next success.

Michael G. Rubin

If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

Erik Wemple

What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).