I saw that the whole thing was made up and that the game of success was just that, a game. I realized I could invent another game. I settled on a game called I

I saw that the whole thing was made up and that the game of success was just that, a game. I realized I could invent another game. I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side... "How will I be a contribution today?" ... Just look carefully at the cover of the box, and if the rules do not light up your life, put it away, take out another one you like better, and play the game wholeheartedly. Remember, it's all invented. - Ben Zander, The Art of Possibility If you're willing to fail interestingly, you usually succeed interestingly. - Edward Albee While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - Henry C. Link Most people die of a kind of creeping common sense. They discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. - Oscar Wilde Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. - R. L. Stevenson We do not know to-day whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered, that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us. - Emerson Hard Times. In this contradictory world of Truth the hard times come when the good times are in the world of commerce; namely, sleep, fulleating, plenty of money, care of it, and leisure; these are the hard times. Nothing is doing and we lose every day. - Emerson, journal