Top 26 Failed Experiments Quotes
#1. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.
Grant Morrison
#2. Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#3. Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn't expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.
Jennifer Egan
#4. Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.
Verlyn Klinkenborg
#5. The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.
Tom Wolfe
#6. I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.
Steve King
#7. Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.
Robert Walpole
#9. Churches should not be directly involved in politics.
John Leo
#10. Travis!"
"Down here, Pidge. Just come in feet first, I'll catch you."
"You're out of your damn mind if you think I'm jumping into the dark!"
"I'll catch you! I promise! Now get your ass in here!
Jamie McGuire
#11. There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#12. Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats.
Chetan M. Kumbhar
#13. Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#14. All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
Leland Stanford
#15. Children were experiments, and his had failed.
Maile Meloy
#16. There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.
Jim Butcher
#17. A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design
Verner Panton
#19. This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
Walter Kirn
#21. One of the characteristics of early modern thought was a tendency to assume binary contrasts. In an attempt to define phenomena more exactly, categories of experience that had once co-inhered were now set off against each other: faith and reason, intellect and emotion, and church and state.
Karen Armstrong
#22. I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.
Dannel Malloy
#23. After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
Malcolm X
#24. It didn't matter how old you got, the finality of death never changed, and neither did the ideals of loyalty and duty and honor, things this punk had never understood.
Martha Reed
#25. The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Paul Wellstone
#26. My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.
Lev Yilmaz
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