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Showing posts with label Anton Chekhov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anton Chekhov. Show all posts
Monday, December 27, 2010
On Success and Failure
“Failure’s hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you’re successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”– Po Bronson
And it made me think of other wise things I have heard on the subject over the years:
To divide men into the successful and the unsuccessful is to look at human nature from a narrow, preconceived point of view. Are you a success or not? Am I? Was Napoleon? Is your servant Vassily? What is the criterion?
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. --Anton Chekhov
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."--Winston Churchill
"There is no burden greater than a high potential."--Charles M. Schultz
"It's easier to live if you are not afraid to die."--Confucius
Failure is a fact of being an artist, and it is also a fact of life. No one enjoys failure, but once you recognize that we learn far more from failures than we due from successes, and you also accept that some failure is inevitable on the road to mastery, then it becomes easier to deal with.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
what Nina says at the end of The Seagull:
When I think of my vocation, I am not afraid of life.
I thought of that after reading this piece of an interview with Jeremy Renner, the lead in The Hurt Locker:
Did you ever think about quitting acting?
Nope.
Not even for a moment?
Never. It's not about anybody else. It's me. It's that determination and persistence and belief in oneself. When you come up against an obstacle, what do you do? Keep being persistent. I started doing plays again, whatever it took. I did whatever makes me happy. I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it. The sacrifices are you can't have a family, you can't do any of that. I was willing to do it.
What it takes.
H/T Zoo O
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