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Failure Quotes
What failure costs, and what it sometimes forces.
This page gathers failure quotes on a wide range of subjects: a legal misdemeanor for not filing a form, the long odds behind a legendary TV pilot season, and a blunt wartime statement that failure simply wasn't an option. One entry reflects on a major historical intelligence failure. See Fear for what often sits just behind failure.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
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We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.
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I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
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My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.
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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
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I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
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I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
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The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.
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- Nov 07, 2020