"No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art."

-- Henry Petroski

#Success Quotes #Art Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“Given any rule, however ï¿½fundamentalï¿½ or ï¿½necessaryï¿½ for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.”
“Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.”
“Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.”
“I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?”
“I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.”
“I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.”

Source : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2007). “Princess Academy”, p.178, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.”

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