#failure

In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#controlled #deal #equipment #experiments #failures

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. ↗

— James Tobin

#causes #depression #disasters #economies #failures

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#being #dead #dead end #defeat #delay

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#change #consequences #direction #failure #forget

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. ↗

— Emma Watson

#care #doing #failure #fear #i

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. ↗

— Emma Watson

#care #doing #earned #failure #fear

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#failure #increase #rate #success #want

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#because #discouraged #failure #far #find

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#answer #appropriate #back #been #chief

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid. ↗

— Mark Webber

#else #everyone #failures #grid #guy