“When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.” PeopleHumansLawInterestNaturalJusticePowerfulLeaderFailingWrittenHuman NatureProtectInjusticeAriseJustifyMost PowerfulPowerful Leaders Book:Living Faith Source: Living Faith
“We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.” IfsNeedsFeelsTryingChildrenFailingMovementProtectSkillsOur ChildrenFeel GoodPersistenceAnxious Author:Martin Seligman
“Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.” TryingFailingProtectLimitationCowardlyImposingProtect You Author:Vladimir K. Zworykin
“The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king.” PeopleWayCountryReasonGovernmentFormFailingInfluenceKingsNeededBalanceShapesProtectCongressChecksAssCorporationsBranchesCashBranches Of Government Author:Immortal Technique
“When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.” MenSometimesGovernmentFailingHe ManProtectLosingPressesRussiaNecksBosomsFoul Author:Hyman Rickover
“Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative impulses, but all we're doing is burying our authentic selves alive.” ThinkingMaySelfCreativeAliveFailingSucceedProtectImpulseBarriersAuthentic SelfBuryingProtecting Ourselves Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.” IfsWayGivingTogetherResponsibilityTechnologyFailingRiskPositionProtectToolsValuablePrivacyWorking TogetherSincereRisk It Author:Tim Cook
“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.” IfsWayLearningFailingDesignProtectRainConstantFaultsSimplicityDuesProgrammingRequirementsResilientComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageRotting Author:Robert Cecil Martin