Quotes of: Defects Keyword

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Mark Strand

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Robert Henri

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

Wietse Venema

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

Donatella Versace

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

Dixie Lee Ray

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

John Major

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Herodotus

For me the saddest thing was that these animals smelled the brokenness in him – the human defect – and kept away.

Alice Sebold

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Life

No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

W. Edwards Deming

Another grave limitation of language is that it cannot, like music or gesture, do more than one thing at once. However the words in a great poet's phrase interinanimate one another and strike the mind as a quasi-instantaneous chord, yet, strictly spe...

Studies in Words

The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward in...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

An Essay on Criticism

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

Fasting for Renewal of Life

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

Arcadia

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

Herman Melville

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

P. D. James

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.

Saul Kripke

Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!

Mehmet Murat ildan