Success and Failure

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.

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

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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.

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Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.

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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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Measure twice because you can only cut once.

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The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

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The surest way of having something done is to forbid your kids to do it.

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The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

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

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Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

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Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.

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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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Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

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Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.

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Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

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Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

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My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.

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