Debacles Quote by Chuck Grassley Download Open image “Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.” — Chuck Grassley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debacles Findings Keys Preventing
An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem. — Richard Bandler Copy Share Image
When you know something starts going wrong, fix it soon before it's too complicated and you don't know to fix it anymore. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
People make mistakes. And plans are prone to human error. If you are aware of this, then you will always have a back up… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Mistakes and failures are just signs that point you in the right direction — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened. — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the… — Amy Jo Martin Copy Share Image
There's plenty of room for finger-pointing for the debacle in Iraq. If it's a problem that the Iraqi military is broken at its core,… — Bruce Riedel Copy Share Image
