All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

我们所有人都未能实现完美的梦想。因此，我对我们的评价是基于我们出色地完成了不可能完成的任务。

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

一个发明家失败了999次，如果他成功了一次，他就成功了。他把自己的失败简单地当作练习投篮。

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

作为孩子，我们没有被教导如何处理成功;我们被教导如何处理失败。如果一开始你没有成功，尝试，再尝试。如果一开始你成功了，然后呢?

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

许多女性未能成为一名出色的厨师，其根源在于她未能培养出对刀具的工人般的重视。

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

糟糕的时期有科学价值。这些场合是一个好的学习者不会错过的。

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

相信超自然反映了想象力的失败。

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.

宁可做一个勇敢奋斗的失败者，也不要做一个从未真正失败过的成功者。

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

但是没有人预测到如此巨大的阻力。在某种程度上，我们在重建方面的失败激发了抵抗的规模。

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

但是生活中有苦难，也有失败。没有人能避免它们。但是，在为梦想而奋斗的过程中，宁可输掉一些战斗，也不要在不知道自己在为什么的情况下被打败。

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

但无论我的失败是什么，我都要记住一件事——我是我的职业的先驱，就像我的祖父在他们的职业中一样，因为我是这个领域中第一个以作家为生的人。

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

到目前为止，任何一所学校成功或失败的最重要因素，远比考试、标准或负责任的商业模式方法重要得多，只是吸引受教育程度最高、最令人兴奋的年轻人进入城市学校，并将他们留在那里。

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

灾难常常是由于没有感觉到一个领域的出现而被激发的，因此想象中不能感觉到的东西在灾难中被体验为具体的感觉。

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures.

庆祝你的成功，在失败中寻找幽默。

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

文明是失败的。我们需要思考我们能在爱与和平中一起做些什么。

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

接受我婚姻失败的事实是毁灭性的，也是非常困难的。