Tieszen Clinic Quotes & Sayings

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are. — Henry Petroski

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry-Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous." — Benoit Mandelbrot

It's equinox, with the world balanced between winter and summer, life and death, like a spinning ball balanced on the tip of someone's finger. — M.R. Carey

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. — Oswald Chambers

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them. — Iain Duncan Smith

Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff. — Steve Pavlina

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that. — Randy Newman

It's such a gift in my life to be able to compete - to have the health. — Wladimir Klitschko

But not one tear did I shed for their delight. I was her brave warrior, brave as the warriors who marched through my dreams. — Anne Berry

I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there ... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere. — Steve Perry