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Successful Quotes by Henry Petroski
- 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…
- 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.
- Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful. — Neil Armstrong
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions… — Julian Assange
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman
- Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful. — Alec Baldwin
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura
- There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I… — George Matthew Adams