We cannot fail in following nature.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

— Claude Monet

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will…

— Rajneesh

“Patiently following after nature ultimately enables us, in Descartes’ words, to “make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature” (PWD 1:142–43).”

— Lee Braver

“Following nature means following the facts. It means getting the facts about the physical and social world we inhabit, and the facts about our…

— Lawrence C. Becker

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

— Bob Balaban

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

— George Saunders

Apologies are not pass/fail.

— Randy Pausch

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

— Kent Beck

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

— Mark Wahlberg

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

— James Dickey

We can't afford any president to fail.

— Glenn Beck

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

— Vinod Khosla

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have…

— Michel de Montaigne

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

— Dustin Hoffman

If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,…

— Joel Salatin