#fail

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there. ↗

— Max Lerner

#deeply #despite #effort #failing #get

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#big #biotechnology #bright #bright future #centralized

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#commerce #failure #humanity #me #often

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#dare #fail #greatly #grow #need

More can be learned from what works than from what fails. ↗

— Rene Dubos

#learned #more #than #works

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed. ↗

— John Eaton

#being #experience #failed #how #i

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #man #me #satisfied #show

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#carpentry #fail #i #ready #take

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#enlightening #experience #failing #good #life