Henry Petroski Quotes

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Henry Petroski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1942

Topics

FailureEngineeringUnderstandingHow

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

Joel Edgerton

MeExpectationsSomeoneThings Happen

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

John D. Rockefeller

CoffeeSunPeopleSugarWillMore

Whatever historical or ideological relevance the Iowa caucus has will more than likely not get you to the White House, but it will probably get you a sweet gig at Fox News.

Meghan McCain

SweetYouHouseWhiteNewsFox

Shooting in sequence, I think it intensifies everybody's relationship, the crew, the actors. You have to be very focused, and shooting at night is a challenge because you get tired. I think it requires a special kind of concentration, but it's also exhilarating.

Steve Buscemi

RelationshipChallengeTiredNight

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Stephen Covey

WorkYouImportantAheadNeverYour

I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.

Tom Wopat

ListenLikeReallyDanSteely

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

Alma Gluck

DaySoulAmericanEvery DayOut

I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey the rules of progression for novels. I don't think about a particular form: I think more about fiction, let's say a chunk of fiction.

Alice Munro

DisciplineStoryThinkShortRules

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

Pierre Schaeffer

PeopleLanguageSameWhateverShare

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

Selena

SingingFreeI CanPersonWant

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

Lewis Tappan

WorkBlessedViolenceFallHandAny

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Kristin Scott Thomas

MorningDayMeRestFindPlay

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