Foolproof Quotes

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

  Albert Einstein

  Winning, Race, Trying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

  Frank Abagnale

  Believe, Creativity, Fool

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• It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

  Groucho Marx

  Design, Fool, Impossible

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• I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

  Alan Coren

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Fools Day

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• One of the biggest mistakes that most people make is clinging to the excuse that the time isn't quite right to take action. Well, let me tell you something: In my experience, conditions are never right at the right time. The timing is always wrong. So if you're waiting for everything to be perfect before taking action, you have a foolproof excuse for never taking action.

  Robert Ringer

  Mistake, Perfect, People

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• The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Cheating, Firsts, Facts

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• His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

  J. K. Rowling

  Learning, Priorities, Literature

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• A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

  Duncan Sheik

  Real, Play, Roots

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• Happiness and joy comes to you when it moves through you. There is no other pathway--and that's the miracle. You will have a number of opportunities in the days just ahead to be a vehicle of happiness and joy for another. Step right into that. Be the source of that. As you bring others to a smile, so, too, will you bring yourself. The method is foolproof.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Opportunity, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jan 27, 2015

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• Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Team, Player

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.84, Penguin

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• The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get no­ticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Years, People

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, its foolproof.

  Josh Lanyon

  Simple, Insane, Kill Me

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• You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing' Except, no, I wouldn't. I'd do the same amount of writing I do now and the rest of the time I'd go stir crazy. If you're waiting for the perfect moment you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crazy, Writing, Thinking

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• I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?

  Amy Hempel

  Writing, Thinking, Lines

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• You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Successful, Rocks, Sea

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• I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

  Brian McKnight

  Writing, Answers, Way

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• The combination of a blazer over any T-shirt with a pair of jeans is foolproof.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Jeans, Pairs, T Shirt

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• There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Fool Proof, Defeat

  "Nuclear Reactions". "Omni" Magazine, May 1988.

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• Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

  Gene Brown

  Fools Day, Fool Proof, April

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• So here are some foolproof recipes for those of you who understand the true function of food.
  Bean Treat: Gingerly pour four fluid oz of beans or something into a jug. Cry. Eat the beans from the jug and pour the rest from the can down your throat. N.B. These taste better if they belong to somebody else in your house.
  Pain au Dunk: Fists of bread, rent from the loaf and dunked into anything runnier than bread. Should eat at least six of these because…you should. Don’t toast the bread. Toast is cookery.

  Dylan Moran

  Pain, House, Four

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• There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.

  Erik Wemple

  Hygiene, Organization, Two

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.

  Eike Batista

  Success, Inspiration, Thinking

  "8 Things Billionaires Can Teach Us About Growing A Business" by Drew Hendricks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2014.

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• The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

  Thomas Merton

  Reality, Logical, Mediation

  John C. H. Wu, Jingxiong Wu, Thomas Merton, Kenneth Kraft (2003). “The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T'Ang Dynasty”, p.4, World Wisdom, Inc

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• A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

  Alan Davies

  Jobs, Funny Work, Interviews

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