Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simpl... -J. K. Rowling

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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J. K. Rowling Quotes to Explore

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young....
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous....
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen....
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself int...
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home....
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure....
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution....
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends....
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill....
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain....

Failure Quotes to Explore

Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an o...
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure....
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life ...
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments wh...
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the wo...
I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think....
I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way...
Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and somethi...
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure....
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keep...