If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic... →
Noam Chomsky
Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where... →
Clayton Christensen
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
Clayton M. Christensen
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it... →
Kenneth Clark
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
Mason Cooley
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed... →
Francis Ford Coppola
I'm really bad at tests of any kind, so I'm bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when I'm under the gun, I... →
Brady Corbet
Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.
Jerome Corsi