Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · ★★☆☆ Fair (293 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qkzfb5u9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (780 ratings) · submitted 1997
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ecgyv8jm · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
tiny.ag/u9pdixbi · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
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.
tiny.ag/av8bxdwe · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
tiny.ag/gfofcun3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/nhesdamx · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/qhz1bahc · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.
tiny.ag/wjnnpmri · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
tiny.ag/lpeqizys · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · ★★☆☆ Fair (1195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/wk0s75et · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.
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