“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.”– George Bernard Shaw Related Quotes “I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.”– David Bowie “Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.”– Edward Gibbon “The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”– Andrew Carnegie