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" Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. "

Henry Petroski

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" Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. "

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" Innovation demands risk-taking - which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit. "

" Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate. "

" No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad. "

" The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. "

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" It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. "

" When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score. "

" It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. "

" So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. "

" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "

" The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. "

" The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty. "

" Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. "

" The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. "

" I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer. "

" For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened. "

" Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution. "

" I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. "

Mason Cooley

Failure

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" Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. "

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" To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. "

" This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. "

" Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. "

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "