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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances neces

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. – Brian Ferneyhough

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet. – Brian Ferneyhough

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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. – Brian Ferneyhough

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When I speak of cycles, I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. – Brian Ferneyhough

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Failure is good. Its fertilizer. Everything Ive learned about coaching, Ive learned from making mistakes. – Rick Pitino

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But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling – everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasnt even in the running for failure! – Rupert Holmes

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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. – Sidney Hook

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I feel that The Great Failure is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is. – Natalie Goldberg

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