Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/uvpjrb6x · submitted 1997
Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/vtq15sgk · submitted 1997
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
tiny.ag/wiq0woar · submitted 1997
Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.
tiny.ag/qn68ckxs · submitted 1997
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/iwcasutl · submitted 1997
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
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.
tiny.ag/dncdjxtf · submitted 1997
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
tiny.ag/pyfjvpn5 · submitted 1997
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
tiny.ag/opp6altk · submitted 1997
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ikcjtldg · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
tiny.ag/zfe8lgun · submitted 1997
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
tiny.ag/0516mcy2 · submitted 1999 by Chris Blake
The majority of the time, the thing that gets in the way of success... is your brain.
tiny.ag/snlzrsu1 · submitted 1997
Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/hvtbkoet · submitted 1997
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
tiny.ag/imyvlox8 · submitted 1997
Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ecgyv8jm · submitted 1997
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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