Success and Failure

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

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There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful.

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There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

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There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.

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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

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To err is human, to forgive unusual.

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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.

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Use soft words and hard arguments.

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While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

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Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

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Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.

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Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.

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Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

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If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.

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If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

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If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

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If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.

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