A Quote by Robert Aris Willmott

It is the empiric who never fails.

Robert Aris Willmott

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Fails Never

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Robert Aris Willmott
English - Author
1809 - 1863

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

Jane Jacobs

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Aberjhani

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Martin H. Fischer

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

Bruce Jenner

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

Don DeLillo

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

Charles Spurgeon

There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay.

George Matheson

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

Peter Drucker

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Seth Godin

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Pearl S. Buck

When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

Sam Altman

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.