We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Interpretation
Rejection and failure provide more valuable life lessons than acceptance and success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of learning from negative experiences such as rejection and failure, suggesting that these challenges often teach us more than our successes. Henry Rollins points out that while success can be rewarding, it is through our struggles that we gain deeper insights and wisdom that shape our personal growth and resilience.
In practice
During a motivational speech on resilience and personal growth.
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything.
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you
Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
Be not merely good. Be good for something.
Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.
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