Success and Failure

The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed -- or did you fail because you stopped trying?

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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

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It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

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It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.

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Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

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

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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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It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?

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Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.

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Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.

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Jones' Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

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Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind.

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Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.

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Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

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Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail.

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Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

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