Fail Fast, Fail Often Quotes

“If you’re paying attention to your life at all, the things you are passionate about won’t leave you alone. They’re ideas and hopes and possibilities our mind naturally gravitates to, the things you would focus your time and attention on for no other reasons than that doing them feels right . . . The hard part is trusting in them as an organizing principle in your life.”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“your own life is your ultimate creation.)”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“Upon hearing this, you might think that he became a psychologist due to careful planning. But in fact, he stumbled into his career while pursuing his love of tennis.”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. Then, gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate. —JOHN STEINBECK, NOBEL PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GRAPES OF WRATH”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“Successful people make a habit of pursuing what they enjoy. They take actions that are aligned with their passions and avoid things that dampen their engagement in life.”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“If you want your life to change, you have to take different actions.”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“People recognize when you are interacting with them as a means to get something and will rightfully be wary of you. In contrast, when your goal is to build a community, you commune with others; you converse intimately in order to share the fullness of your humanity—mutual joy, enthusiasm, curiosity, values, feelings, whimsy, and aspirations.”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“Procrastination is complex and can take many different forms. But as intricate and convoluted as our reasons for our procrastination can be, the solution boils down to something pretty simple: Spend time every day working on your most important projects.”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best . . .”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win

“If you want to be a doer—a person whose life is filled with meaningful experiences, diverse opportunities, and continual learning and growth—then it is essential that you not deplete your confidence and energy by overthinking your opportunities.”
― Ryan Babineaux, Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win