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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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As quoted in an ad for GPU Nuclear Corporation, in Black Enterprise Vol. 16, No. 11 (June 1986), p. 79

 

Thomas Alva Edison

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Jonah Lehrer

 

I, too, can work, and because I love to labor with my head and my hands, I am an optimist in spite of all. I used to think I should be thwarted in my desire to do something useful. But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

 

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Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

 

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Now, I don't have all the answers, but I do know the old ways don't work. Trickledown economics has sure failed. And big bureaucracies, both private and public, they've failed too. That's why we need a new approach to government, a government that offers more empowerment and less entitlement. More choices for young people in the schools they attend- in the public schools they attend. And more choices for the elderly and for people with disabilities and the long-term care they receive. A government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy; a government that understands that jobs must come from growth in a vibrant and vital system of free enterprise.

 

Bill Clinton

 

Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don’t think there’s anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn’t unusual – the Orientals did that.

 

Jackson Pollock