E. O. Wilson Quotes
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
