Defects Quotes - Page 22

• those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Greatness, Two, People

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

  Karl Kraus

  Perfect One, Perfect

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• Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

  James Dyson

  Disappointment, Years, Firsts

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Two, Space

  Mark Twain (2014). “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

  Hugh Ross

  Generations, Dozen, Firsts

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• I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Often Is, Views, Errors

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Writing, Simple

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.112, RosettaBooks

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• The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We all feel instinctively, that our children's success reflect glory upon ourselves, while their failures make us feel shame. Unfortunately, the successes which cause us to swell with pride are often of an undesirable kind.... Neither happiness nor virtue, but worldly success, is what the average father desires for his children.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Father, Pride

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• There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.

  Walter Murch

  Ideas, Two, Perfection

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• If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

  Phil Crosby

  Products, Ifs

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• If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?

  Phil Crosby

  Mad, Levels, Knows

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• We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

  Mardy Grothe

  Character, Simple, Flaws

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• Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Light, Way, Glory

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• The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Shows

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• If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Two, Trying

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• Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Projects

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• The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

  Ralph Nader

  Successful, Museums, Safety

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

  Sri Aurobindo

  People, Kind, Solidarity

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.

  Matt Hammitt

  Real, Heart, Adversity

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• If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose that I hold had no scent, we should know that he is wrong. The defect is in him, not the flower. It is the same with the man who says there is no God. It merely means that he is without the capacity to discern His presence.

  Ralph Richardson

  Flower, Mean, Men

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• I learned that I had character defects, that I was allergic to alcohol and drugs, and that I had an obsession with all the bad stuff. But thank God that I woke and that I had good people around me to support me. There's not much more I can say about it. You have to want to be a better person.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Character, People, Support

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, Who I Am, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

  Ariel Winter

  Birth Defects, Overcoming, Stories

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I guess I could Debra Winger in any number of things. She's so luminous - it's a birth defect.

  Carrie Fisher

  Numbers, Birth Defects, Luminous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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