Failure Quote by James E. Lovelock Download Open image ““mistakes subject to so discerning and public a post‐mortem as weather forecasters.”” — James E. Lovelock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failure
“If there is a mutual distrust between the weather forecaster and the public, the public may not listen when they need to most.” — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“We get a lot of the sky is falling on the weather reports, so when something big does hit, people never expect it. If… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely… — Patrick Young Copy Share Image
“Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer –… — Péter Zilahy Copy Share Image
“Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“Making specific forecasts in uncertain situations was, is, and will always be problematic and often misleading. This lesson stands today. The bigger the potentially… — Bryan Norcross Copy Share Image
“Margaret's favorite kind of news story is - would anyone believe this? - the weather. The dull, the prosaic, the default I-have-nothing-else-to-talk-about-so-let's-talk-about-the-weather topic is,… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“The topic of weather isn’t small talk, when you’re conversing with a meteorologist.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“mechanisms of weather predictions are very similar to those of climate predictions. So if we’re comfortable trusting local forecasters’ predictions about weather, we should… — Heidi Cullen Copy Share Image
“I find it sad, but all too human, that there are vast bureaucracies concerned about nuclear waste, huge organizations devoted to decommissioning nuclear power… — James E. Lovelock Copy Share Image
“To expect sustainable development or a trust in business as usual to be viable policies is like expecting a lung cancer victim to be… — James E. Lovelock Copy Share Image
“I call Gaia a physiological system because it appears to have the unconscious goal of regulating the climate and the chemistry at a comfortable… — James E. Lovelock Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, we are a species with schizoid tendencies, and like an old lady who has to share her house with a growing and destructive… — James E. Lovelock Copy Share Image
“We are no more qualified to be the stewards or developers of the Earth than are goats to be gardeners.” — James E. Lovelock Copy Share Image
“inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will… — James E. Lovelock Copy Share Image
“the IPCC now spoke comfortably of consensus and endorsed those mysterious concepts of sustainability and energy that renewed itself. We even thought that this… — James E. Lovelock Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon's Law #28: If you're going to fuck up, be sure to fuck up good and proper. Nothing makes failure acceptable, so you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
First action was a mistake. What about the second? third? fourth and fifth?...Mehn you are bad... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image