Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/jvo6jzxe · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · ★★☆☆ Fair (383 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/py5syczo · ★★☆☆ Fair (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.
tiny.ag/wlbk96e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/zdvgyvsm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
tiny.ag/wnceow6i · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
tiny.ag/ki5uq3ph · ★★☆☆ Fair (24 ratings) · submitted 1997
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
tiny.ag/u9pdixbi · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/of4kcoqn · ★★☆☆ Fair (316 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
tiny.ag/ecgyv8jm · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
tiny.ag/dhpqxvke · ★★☆☆ Fair (852 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · ★★☆☆ Fair (293 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qkzfb5u9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (780 ratings) · submitted 1997
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ass2ou8g · ★★☆☆ Fair (222 ratings) · submitted 1997
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
tiny.ag/0jnrf9e2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing good ever ends.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/6ntlf03d · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
tiny.ag/zmkoye6d · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
tiny.ag/zdanfcvk · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/euochyxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
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