PicsArt Monthly PicsArt Monthly Magazine January Issue 2015 | Seite 8

OOPS!
Excuse me. Sorry. Pardon me. %#@&$.
No one is infallible. We all make mistakes.
Pundits tell us successful people are all too
familiar with failure. They learn from it. For
me the jury is still out.
During the 1976 Winter Olympics, a
sportscaster interviewing Franz Klammer, the
Austrian downhill skier, after his spectacular
gold medal victory suggested that to be so
good in this event, one has to fall and get back
up many times. In his thick German accent
Franz retorted, “You don’t fall in downhill. You
fall, you die.”
In Major League Baseball, hitting .300 is a
great batting average. In other words being
successful less than one third of the time. In
photography that success rate would curtail
your career before it got off the ground.
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