E. O. Wilson Quotes
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.E. O. Wilson
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama -
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.
Gail Sheehy -
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.
Ian Frazier -
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom -
Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier
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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.
B. F. Skinner -
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.
E. O. Wilson -
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!'
Adam Davidson -
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin -
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.
Major Taylor -
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
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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.
Sam Altman -
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.
Edgar Ramirez -
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
Natalie Goldberg -
James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.
Kaley Cuoco -
My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne -
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
Ellen Ullman -
Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
Georgette Mosbacher -
I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.
Barack Obama -
Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.
Barry Eichengreen -
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
E. O. Wilson