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“What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).”

“With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.”

Source: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

“Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.”

Long Values Reading Term Failing Consequence Long Term Graduates

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.”

Moving Reading Novel Failing Favourite Mum Mockingbird Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Jessica Marais

“I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.”

Way Littles Reading Found Loses Rooms Failing Subjects Reader Corners My Way Sufficient License Carelessness Inattention

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.”

Needs Years Reading Failing Tunes Sixty

Author:Cecil B. DeMille

“A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.”

Dies Reading Simple Wonder Worry Failing Intellectual Environmental Careful Disaster Simple Things Annoyance

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.”

Thinking Trying I Can Important Kids Reading Interesting Too Much Failing Dog Bed Something Interesting

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do the same thing they think works over and over again." I had an epiphany and called my manager and started a creed with my producers. I promised we'd do whatever was best for the song and the album - no ego would get in the way.”

People Thinking Way Said Seems Song Reading Failing Ego Albums Producers Magazines Managers Interviews Brown Creeds Epiphany Time Magazine

Author:Michael Buble