"I like movies about failing."

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Albert Brooks

#Failing Quotes

“Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.”
“There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.”
“Art is what everyone knows it is.”

Source : Benedetto Croce, Remo Bodei (2007). “Breviary of aesthetics: four lectures”, Univ of Toronto Pr
“The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.”
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.”
“The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.”
“Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.”

Source : "Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters". Book by Charles Cooley, p. 200, 1927.
“...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.”

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