Success and Failure
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Comment# · Fair (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
Comment# · Poor (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
Comment# · Fair (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
Comment# · Fair (139 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
Comment# · Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in
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Comment# · Fair (861 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
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Comment# · Fair (1124 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
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Comment# · Fair (800 ratings) · submitted 1997
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
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Comment# · Fair (895 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in
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Comment# · Fair (13 ratings) · submitted 1997
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward.
Comment# · Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1997
Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, in
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Comment# · Fair (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Comment# · Fair (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
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