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Success and Failure

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tiny.ag/u5mb79tw  ·  submitted 1997

Peter Pan (hardcover)

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/rxjp4mey  ·  submitted 1997

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/ogrpomi2  ·  submitted 1997

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?

Alan James Bean, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/gwiaxqqe  ·  submitted 1997

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/gdmyudjb  ·  submitted 1997

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.

Peter Benchley, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/4ocga7zg  ·  submitted 1997

I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.

James G. Bennet, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/tmknh1db  ·  submitted 1997

99% of the game is half mental.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/lmbiznpc  ·  submitted 1997

It's not over until it's over.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/hdkst9q4  ·  submitted 1997

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/varfwyts  ·  submitted 1997

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell, in Success and Failure

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.

Samuel Butler, in Success and Failure

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/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.

Leo Burnett, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/e97mpzt2  ·  submitted 1997

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus, in Law and Politics and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/ifmh7qzv  ·  submitted 1997

Everything you do or say is public relations.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/s45yjewi  ·  submitted 1997

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/5vltvcdk  ·  submitted 1997

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/pyo8tp7v  ·  submitted 1997

Every solution breeds new problems.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/8ixk9v6t  ·  submitted 1997

Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/vdu1almu  ·  submitted 1997

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

Unknown, in Success and Failure