1310 | Denzel Washington: “If You Don’t Fail You’re Not Even Trying.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Denzel Washington encourages you to take risks, bring your ideas to life, and fall forward through your failures. There’s no use playing small. Dreaming big takes no more energy than dreaming small. Yes, you will fall and you will fail. But it’s the way you look at falling and failing that makes the difference. Falling is an opportunity to get back up and keep going. Failure is not a loss, it’s a lesson. It means you’re trying. Don’t quit. Sooner or later, things will work out.
Source: Penn's 2011 Commencement Address by Denzel Washington
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QLD is, if you don't fail, you're not even trying. |
| 0:06.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show on your hope, Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and |
| 0:37.0 | we've got Denzel Washington on the show today. |
| 0:40.0 | This is a throwback episode that I play every once in a while because I think it's so important for all of us to hear. |
| 0:47.0 | Fear is a beast. |
| 0:50.0 | Do I know how wild fear is? |
| 0:52.0 | You know, we fear fear, right? |
| 0:56.0 | But we also fear hope at the same time. |
| 0:59.0 | Now, why do we fear hope? |
| 1:01.0 | We fear hope because in the past, when we've hoped for something, many times it led to disappointment. |
| 1:08.0 | You know, Ross Eleanor Horn makes this point in his book, How We Change. |
| 1:13.0 | He says hope is the leading cause of despair. |
| 1:17.0 | Really chew on that. |
| 1:18.0 | Really think about that. |
| 1:19.0 | Think about all the times you've been disappointed in your life. |
| 1:22.0 | They all began with a sense of hope. |
| 1:25.0 | And over time, you learned the fear hope. |
| 1:28.0 | So we fear fear. |
| 1:29.0 | We fear hope. |
| 1:31.0 | We fear being oppressed. |
| 1:34.0 | We fear people holding us down. |
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