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Henry Spencer Quotes

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Henry Spencer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1955

Topics

Space Serious More Fail Solid Than

I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a party.

Joan Rivers

People Me Party Always See Get

I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul.

John Ortberg

Life Soul Care You More Because

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

John Kricfalusi

Writing Jealous Talk Storyboard Each

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

Jeffrey Sachs

Finance World Rest View Security

Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.

Steve Erickson

College Los Angeles Living Nothing

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'

Stacy Schiff

Me Questions Back New Said Coming

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

Deepak Chopra

Creativity Moving Direction Universe

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

David Simon

Long You Go Achieving Audience Gone

I was by no means a nun.

Christine McVie

Means Nun

It's not so important to me where I work. A lot of good writers and directors and actors come out of Hollywood, so obviously it would be great to work there, but there's some great stuff coming out of Britain, so I'm going to see what comes from all angles.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Work Good Great Me Important See

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

Anson Mount

Yourself School Smart You Create

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

Atul Gawande

Failure Time Fire People You Moral