“Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.”
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.