2007-03-23 04:55:36 · 11 answers · asked by GFH 21@6 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Here's a specific example that may help. Since it's March Madness time, it's a basketball example.
Suppose your team is down by two points with three seconds to go. You have one free throw to shoot. If you make it, the other team gets the ball with a one-point lead and your team loses. If you try to miss it, your team has a chance to get the rebound and take a shot. Two points will tie and three points will win.
So you try to miss the free throw, but you make it and your team loses. I'd call that a failure, wouldn't you? You failed to fail, but that doesn't mean that you succeeded.
2007-03-23 05:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've succeded, never give up trying, for only when you forget or don't try do you really fail. As Margaret Mead said, "Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on."
2007-03-23 16:43:09 · answer #2 · answered by deldel821 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you did? You failed at your goal to fail, but you'd better thank your lucky stars that you did!
2007-03-23 12:01:29 · answer #3 · answered by KIZIAH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you failed. Because you did not achieve what you set out to do which was fail.
2007-03-23 16:36:41 · answer #4 · answered by soccer_sweetie_87 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You succeeded to fail, so you succeeded. Period.
2007-03-23 19:47:48 · answer #5 · answered by magicman692 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You succeeded because you accomplished your goal
2007-03-23 20:50:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
both: you failed in succeeding and succeeded in failing.
2007-03-23 13:11:24 · answer #7 · answered by fayssal1932 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you failed because you did not fail
2007-03-23 13:08:24 · answer #8 · answered by ♂ ♫ Timberwolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both.
2007-03-23 14:28:00 · answer #9 · answered by SANCHA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you suc-failed
2007-03-23 13:19:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋