That’s expected of many people. It’s just not easy to bounce back from failure, but failure has been part of many people’s growth and success. Your answer is of the most occurrence because most people lack the fortitude to keep trying. Good answer!

Great subject, Buba!

The battle of the quotes. So what is the best quote about failure and success and balancing them? Here are some great ones. I love #1, 2, and 4.

1. “Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be” – John Wooden

2. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield

3. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

4. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

5. “The phoenix must burn to emerge.” – Janet Fitch

6. “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” – Ken Robinson

7. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter

8. “If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want” – Richard Yates

9. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Denis Waitley

10. “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” – Ellen DeGeneres

By the way, I personally am one of those people who failed multiple times before succeeding. My philosophy has always been never to regret not doing something.

That’s led me to making some great and horrible decisions in my life but my only regrets were for things I’d do differently, not for things I wished I had tried to do.

If that is a Miles quote I should go to Vegas, stat.

My favorite quote from Mr. Davis is this one:

If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. Living is an adventure and a challenge. When people come up to me and ask me to play something like ‘My Funny Valentine,’ some old thing that I might have done when they were fucking this special girl and the music might have made them both feel good, I can understand that. But I tell them to go buy the record. I’m not there in that place any longer and I have to live for what is best for me and not what’s best for them.

Yep. Even Asians with a White Partner tend toward Asian look and not exactly White.

The entire issue of race is so important that I find the efforts of the right to limit those discussions as stupid.

Take myself as an example. My father was Chinese and my mother White. As a half-Chinese kid in Wisconsin, I never had a schoolmate of any color but white. No blacks, Hispanic, or even Asian, other than relatives.

The hurtful and damaging aspect of racism is that it can make kids ashamed of or wanting to change their race. As a kid, I was ashamed of being Chinese. When you’re biracial, you never fit either culture completely. That was how it was with me. Bullying as a kid made me the aggressive hard charging person I am.

At any rate, when you live as long as I have and meet so many people who are smarter, more talented, and more accomplished that you realize that race is a barrier that can be overcome but not by everybody or everywhere.