Success and Failure

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis, in Success and Failure

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Daniel Dennett, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.

Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!

Murray Banks, in Success and Failure

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.

Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan, in Success and Failure

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?

Alan James Bean, in Success and Failure

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

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

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

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

James G. Bennet, in Success and Failure

99% of the game is half mental.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

It's not over until it's over.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken, in Success and Failure