Henry Petroski Quotes

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

Henry Petroski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CompromiseDesignImportantMeet

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

Jimmy Iovine

FearMindLearnYouPowerfulKnow

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

John Boyle O'Reilly

DisciplineMenTrainingValueYoung

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

John Gay

FriendProveOpenCurseMayWorse

I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

Melania Trump

HomeFunFeelYouPersonalWarmth

As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.

Robert H. Grubbs

WomenMenCollegeAmazingMeMeet

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

Jeanne Calment

WitPrettyMake

From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.

Jeff Goodell

LiveMountainsPeopleViewProblem

There are so many dogs out there that need homes, and so many awesome dogs who are stuck in shelters.

Stella Maxwell

NeedDogsAwesomeOutStuckWho

I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

JobBlueThinkWrestlingNeverGuy

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Tori Amos

LifeYourselfPeoplePushYouYour

I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.

Robert Winston

TimeBestFaceBornNeverLeft

The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world.

Marvin Harris

WorldIndiaProductionCattleAnswer

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