Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
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