Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
Interpretation
True learning comes from failure rather than success, which can lead to arrogance.
Moby suggests that while success can breed arrogance or complacency, it is through failure that individuals gain the most valuable insights and lessons. This perspective emphasizes the importance of humility and the learning opportunities that arise from setbacks.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech to emphasize the importance of resilience.
So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
But when a manβs religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we're doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we've had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.
Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.
Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
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