Thursday, January 17, 2008

Failure quotes: blunders are good!

Why are failures important? We learn from our blunders. Here's another perspective on this idea.

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music." - Lewis Thomas, author of Lives of a Cell

Hat tip to "Pistachio" Laura Fitton, via Twitter.

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2 comments:

Derrick Kwa said...

Great quote. That's a very nice view of it. =).

Becky McCray said...

Thanks, Derrick. I have a whole series on failure, because I see it as essential to success.

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