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Fail Quotes by Henry Petroski
- What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it…
- Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break…
- Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
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- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire.… — Christian Bale
- Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a… — Clara Barton
- We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed. — Glenn Beck
- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. — Samuel Beckett