Famous quotes containing the words method, failure and/or rate:
“You that do search for every purling spring
Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flows,
And every flower, not sweet perhaps, which grows
Near thereabouts into your poesy wring;
You that do dictionarys method bring
Into your rhymes, running in rattling rows;”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)
“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendencythe belief that the here and now is all there is.”
—Allan Bloom (19301992)
“Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877?)