Success and Failure

You should emulate your heroes, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure

You're a genius if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning is electricity -- but you're an idiot if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning can kill you.

 Unknown, (from Mad Magazine), in  Success and Failure

Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

 Edward A. Murphy, Jr., in  Success and Failure

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

 Edward A. Murphy, Jr., in  Success and Failure

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

 Henry Louis Mencken, in  Success and Failure

When one is trying to do something beyond one's known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

 Henry Miller, in  Success and Failure

Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.

 Marty Milner, in  Success and Failure

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.

 Wilson Mizner, in  Success and Failure and  Vice and Virtue

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

 Joe Namath, in  Success and Failure

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

 Isaac Newton, in  Success and Failure

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

 Friedrich Nietzsche, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

 Erik Nupponen, in  Success and Failure

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

 Sean O'Casey, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.

 J. A. O'Fihely, in  Success and Failure

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

 John Ousterhout, in  Success and Failure

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

 Neil Peart, in  Success and Failure

Necessity is the mother of invention.

 Plato, The Republic, in  Success and Failure and  Work and Recreation

You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure

You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure

You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure