Failure Quote by E. L. Doctorow Download Open image “We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.” — E. L. Doctorow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure Ifs Inspirational Love Mistake Past Time
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We may regret the mistakes in our past, but without those mistakes we wouldn't be who we are today. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year… Who believes in America more than… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless,… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
