Graham English

3 comments on “Fail In Search Of Something Bigger”

• • Mike Lopez said:
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  • Jun 17th, 2008 at 10:04 am

  I too believe that failure is the beginning of something better. If I fail now then that means I tried. I can only think of two types of person who won’t fail… the perfect and the one who doesn’t try. The former is unlikely to exist though.

• • David Niall Wilson said:
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  • Jun 17th, 2008 at 10:49 am

  We just discussed this over at http://www.storytellersunplugged.com - though we were on the subject of revision and editing. We were trying to figure out how you know when you’ve revised “enough” - and at what point you start messing a thing up by continuing to work on it…

• • Chris said:
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  • Jul 9th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

  This is very similar to a quote by Robert Louis Stevenson: “OUr business in this world is not to succeed, bt to continue to fgail, in good spirits.