Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/lhewzazm · submitted 1997
I'd rather be rich than stupid.
tiny.ag/5edntuvq · submitted 1997
If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.
tiny.ag/fsy6lb1v · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
tiny.ag/stfdm53a · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
tiny.ag/aqhc8mvh · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
tiny.ag/puraglae · submitted 1997
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.
tiny.ag/bpgwmk3n · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
tiny.ag/t2ay3kb5 · submitted 1997
If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.
tiny.ag/xuprbfr6 · submitted 1997
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
tiny.ag/vhuaqm1e · submitted 1997
If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/varfwyts · submitted 1997
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
tiny.ag/ivbmwcle · submitted 1997
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/rwq2lgkv · 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.
tiny.ag/bvz84ngk · submitted 1997
Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/jro1ckeb · 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.
tiny.ag/ck8ji3nm · 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.
tiny.ag/zfe8lgun · submitted 1997
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
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