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BLOG - architectural rendering and illustration blog. Infographic Nation. Cool Infographics - Blog. Piximilar Visual Search - Idée Inc. - The Visual Search Company. Brain Pickings | Creativity - Part 2. 10 MARCH, 2014By: Maria Popova The lost art of learning to stand “where we would rather not and expand in ways we never knew we could.” “You gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far,” Steve Jobs cautioned. “There is no such thing as failure — failure is just life trying to move us in another direction,” Oprah counseled new Harvard graduates. In his wonderfully heartening letter of fatherly advice, F. Scott Fitzgerald gave his young daughter Scottie a list of things to worry and not worry about in life; among the unworriables, he listed failure, “unless it comes through your own fault.” And yet, as Debbie Millman observed in Fail Safe, her magnificent illustrated-essay-turned-commencement-address, most of us “like to operate within our abilities” — stepping outside of them risks failure, and we do worry about it, very much.

Female archers, lantern slide, c. 1920. Mastery requires endurance. Thomas Edison The word failure is imperfect. Frederick Douglass.

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