[Ads-l] failure is not an option

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

In 1970: "Look, you do not have failure as an option at this college".

Date: January 4, 1970
Newspaper: Chicago Tribune
Newspaper Location: Chicago, Illinois
Article: Dr. Hurst's 'Revolution' at Malcolm X; continuation title:
Hurst Explains the Academic 'Revolution' at Malcolm X College
Author: Chesly Manly
Quote Page 2A, Column 5
Database: Newspapers.com

[Begin excerpt]
What we're saying to our student is, 'Look, you do not have failure as
an option at this college. When you come to this college as a student
you're going to remain a student until such time as you have met the
requirements, the objectives; and once you have these objectives at
the minimum level we're going to give you a grade of A, B, or C. '
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 7:00 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Excellent work, James. Here is a 1976 interview with a successful
> business man who says: "I don't see failure as an option".
>
> Date: April 22, 1976
> Newspaper: The San Francisco Examiner
> Newspaper Location: San Francisco, California
> Article: Success calls for a total commitment
> Quote Page 52, Column 1
> Database: Newspapers.com
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> John H. Johnson, one of the nation' most successful black businessmen,
> says "Failure is a word I don't accept." He is editor and publisher of
> the Johnson Publishing Co., which publishes Ebony, Jet, Ebony Jr., and
> other black magazines. He recently was interviewed by the Harvard
> Business Review.
> . . .
> Johnson: I don't see failure as an option. If Ebony didn't succeed, it
> was going to destroy my life. So I had total commitment, my whole life
> depended on Ebony. I had no options.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 5:40 PM James Eric Lawson <jel at nventure.com> wrote:
> >
> > A report in (paywalled) 01 May 1980 The Rock Island Argus, p 9,
> > left col., toward bottom,
> > https://www.newspapers.com/image/665559582/?terms=%22failure%20is%20not%20an%20option%22&match=2
> > quotes US Energy Dept. Sec. Charles W. Duncan Jr. from a "news conference":
> >
> > "We don't have the luxury of having failure as an option," he said.
> > "It's going to be until the turn of the century before we have
> > substantial returns from alternative energy sources."
> >
> > Variations on the theme follow, including this from a witness for the
> > July 21, 1981 Small, high technology firms, inventors, and innovation
> > hearings before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the
> > Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives,
> > Ninety-seventh Congress
> > https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082338743&view=1up&seq=67&q1=not%20an%20option
> >
> > "Failure was not an option available to them." p 63.
> >
> > On 1/24/21 1:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > > Conventional wiz credits this to the movie _Apollo 13_ (1995).
> > >
> > > Cf.:
> > >
> > > 1983 _Trenton Times_ (Apr. 11) 11 : We worked on the premise that all this
> > > could be done. Failure was never an option.
> > >
> > > What's surprising is that nothing earlier has appeared.  I certainly never
> > > heard "Failure is not an option" till after the movie was released,
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > James Eric Lawson
> >
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