Denial Vs. Failure
DENIAL
SPIT is saying, sometimes when everyone around you is telling you something about you, you should just listen. Denial is more than a river, it is a death sentence.
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer
I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it…
Anne Ford
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Frank Herbert
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Christopher Lasch
I know a lot of people in this country who are in denial or they want to blame everybody else for the dilemma that we find ourselves in.
Zach Wamp
FAILURE
The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
James M. Baldwin
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one’s children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim
I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter