Denzel Washington:
“If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.”
(Arranged by Carmichael Phillips)
(Denzel Washington in Fences)
“If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying.”
“My wife told me this great expression:
‘To get something you’ve never had, you have to do something you never did.’”
“Les Brown’s a motivational speaker. He made an analogy about this. He said:
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‘Imagine you’re on your deathbed. And standing around your deathbed are the ghosts, representing your unfulfilled potential, the ghosts of the ideas you never acted on, the ghosts of the talents you didn’t use.’”
“To get something you’ve never had, you have to do something you never did.”
“And they’re standing around your bed angry, disappointed and upset.”
“They say, ‘We came to you because you could have brought us to life. And now we have to go to the grave together.’”
“So, I ask you today. How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?”
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