Truman Capote's Failure

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor" is a quote from Truman Capote that explains why success is so satisfying. My opinion of the meaning of this particular quote is, that without the memory of failure to compel a person to do better, success would have no grandeur. The first example is the school subject of math. Another is website I am writing this essay on this very moment. A final example would be a particular painting that I have worked on for five years . Math; a skill required by all and loathed by many, can be tedious enough to lull a person to sleep. Algebra can be just as dull if not more so, and is much more difficult compared to ordinary math. For an individual with above average intelligence it may look primitive

I remember when I started writing on this website, and at first I did not achieve a high score on it, in fact on my first couple of essays I only made scores of eighteen. After a large number of attempts to raise my scores, I began to consider giving up on changing my score altogether, I then decided to ask for help. When I began to ask Ms. Patsy for help, she pointed out some of my mistakes, gave advice to improve my sentence structures, and word replacements. Although Ms. Patsy's suggestions helped, my score did not raise itself that much, and as a result I nearly quit. Suddenly, I noticed that the paragraphs were out-of-order and on a whim, I shuffled them and voilà, my score rose by two points! Then, another epiphany popped into my head, and I noticed how lacking in length my paragraphs were and began to make them longer; once again my score rose and I nearly leapt for joy. Because of my mistakes and failures I became a better

When I began painting, I was not greatly skilled; in fact, my paintings looked more like a third-grader's painting more than anything else. Knowing I could do better, I began to practice and as that clichéd saying goes "practice makes perfect" I began to make better paintings and my skills sharpened, I could even paint a tree without it resembling a lollipop. I then tried to paint a portrait; this portrait was of a young woman who had navy blue eyes, high cheek bones and long, thick, black hair. This was the first time I have ever done a portrait and this woman was an imagined figure, so naturally, the first attempt was rather dismal. Almost everything on it was wrong; the eyes were too big and had no life, the nose was off, and the lips simply resembled a blob. For an entire year I attempted to improve the painting, but I simply could not do it and was close to giving up. Afterward, I decided to go online and research portraits and learn something from them if I could, and low and behold I learned something. I noticed that in every portrait that featured an animal or human, the eyes had white spots decorating them; those spots made the eyes more lifelike and soulful. I immediately painted the spots on the eyes and almost instantly the painting looked better. Although this painting is not complete and I am still revising it five