Year Failure Rates

Famous quotes containing the words year, failure and/or rates:

    “Ring out the old, ring in the new,
    Ring happy bells, across the snow:
    The year is going, let him go;
    Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.”
    —John Hersey (1914–1993)

    “[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)