Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/t9lhndlz · ★★☆☆ Fair (20 ratings) · submitted 1997
A winner never quits -- a quitter never wins.
tiny.ag/ckd9cv6r · ★★☆☆ Fair (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
tiny.ag/oic7hxlc · ★★☆☆ Fair (28 ratings) · submitted 1997
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
tiny.ag/lv1mbo3c · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
tiny.ag/hwk0yobb · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/dhkq0tg9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (27 ratings) · submitted 1997
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
tiny.ag/6dhgl4cy · ★★☆☆ Fair (141 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Ian Robinson
An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
tiny.ag/oxoy2gsu · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
tiny.ag/p7nfwxgq · ★★☆☆ Fair (455 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
tiny.ag/950guyxd · ★★☆☆ Fair (479 ratings) · submitted 1997
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
tiny.ag/pxbmzdh5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (255 ratings) · submitted 1997
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
tiny.ag/vjl9ro7i · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
tiny.ag/dlqoy9f3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/cf7uraml · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
tiny.ag/rxx8g4si · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
tiny.ag/9einaqki · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/r5b2304k · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
tiny.ag/nms3wmpx · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
tiny.ag/of4kcoqn · ★★☆☆ Fair (316 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
tiny.ag/ki5uq3ph · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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