“We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.” IfsThinkingChildrenBookCareFocusFailingGroupsMinesProudSucceedResearchDon't CareHonestlyI Don't CareMy ChildrenChildren's BooksMarket ResearchFocus Groups Author:Ricky Gervais
“Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.” IfsPoliticalChallengesStudyFailingGroupsAmountIntellectualStructureCollectives Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985
“Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.” PeopleIfsHumansMayImportantGovernmentIndividualHuman BeingsMistakeFailingGroupsCostDrugSucceedMessTriumphDestructiveProtected Author:L. Neil Smith
“Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.” IfsMindMayDoePerfectPrinciplesFailingGroupsMastersMembersLettersHarmonyInstructionPerfect HarmonyMastermind Author:Napoleon Hill
“This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.” TurnsFailingGroupsMiddleCoupleEuropeMeetingsNineHotelMutualBedroomThrillingMiddle AgedBrussels Author:E. P. Thompson
“I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.” HomeCommunityFailingGroupsEconomicMiddleCoupleTravelMeetingsAffairNineHotelMiddle AgesGreat LoveLove AffairMiddle AgedBrussels Author:Kenneth Tynan
“If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.” IfsChildrenValuesSocialResponsibilityGoneFailingGroupsReturnAdultsDevelopingConsiderationConformityAllowingPeersSocial ResponsibilityAutonomyConstructivePeer GroupConsideration For OthersDiminishing Returns Book:2 Wrlds Childhood Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood
“If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.” IfsShouldCountryDemocracyFailingGroupsMilitaryRevolutionSucceedSpringDemocraticExperimentsElsewhereOther CountriesEgyptIslamistsArab Spring Author:David Ignatius
“Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.” PeopleWarCountryHelpingHomeNationsIssuesPlansFailingGroupsPolicyIndustryStandardsInternationalArguingBillionsExpertsCivil WarStrongestConsideringDependenceEconomistGovernancePoorest Author:Amy Lockwood
“Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingLooksDoeStillsRealDoneEnoughCausesCasesRichPlansFailingGroupsOceanPressureClimateEnvironmentalWarmHarmWar Of The WorldsFuelFossilsConsensusFossil FuelBeing DoneCondemningPressure GroupsOcean Acidification Author:Matt Ridley