Accountability Quote by David Brin Download Open image “Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.” — David Brin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accountability Antidote Criticism Errors Reciprocity
In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Of all the things we are wrong about, this idea of error might well top the list: It is our meta-mistake: we are wrong… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“Unjust responses to failure are almost never the result of bad performance. They are the result of bad relationships.” — Sidney Dekker Copy Share Image
It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Accountability is limited to the extend that you allow others into your life. Accountability without safety will result in resentment and resistance.” — Dale Forehand Copy Share Image
One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs. — David Brin Copy Share Image
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear. — David Brin Copy Share Image
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded.… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that this did… — David Brin Copy Share Image
In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature",… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the battle for police reform, accountability and justice, Americans don't have to re-invent the wheel. We just have to revoke the thing that… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Transparency pertains to impartial behavior, implies openness, communication, and accountability. Inculcate transparency in attitude and experience a life free of controversy and blame — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it… — Bill Bullard Copy Share Image
The American people deserve accountability over wasteful spending, and we accomplish that by prioritizing taxpayer dollars in a responsive and responsible manner. — Katie Britt Copy Share Image
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