1. THE F-WORD NewSchools Summit May 18, 2011 1

2. FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT FAILURE… “I didn’t fail at the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth 2

3. …AND SOME THAT ARE LESS FAMOUS “My life has been nothing but a failure, and all that’s left for me to do is to destroy my paintings before I disappear.” - Claude Monet “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? - Charlie Sheen 3

4. JIM SHELTON “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford 4

5. JOHN DEASY “Success builds character. Failure reveals it.” – David Checkett 5

6. CAPRICE YOUNG “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt 6

7. DARRYL COBB “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.” – JK Rowling 7

8. TOM VANDERARK “Fail often in order to succeed sooner.” – motto of the IDEO product design firm 8