Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/ogrpomi2 · submitted 1997
Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
tiny.ag/gwiaxqqe · submitted 1997
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
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.
tiny.ag/4ocga7zg · submitted 1997
I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.
tiny.ag/tmknh1db · submitted 1997
99% of the game is half mental.
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
tiny.ag/dxiykzqf · submitted 1999
If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.
tiny.ag/yyswmzge · submitted 1997
If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.
tiny.ag/qtbtjqxs · submitted 1997
You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.
tiny.ag/gpnuvt0q · submitted 1997
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
tiny.ag/tnfwhxlp · submitted 1997
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
tiny.ag/lc1buagj · submitted 1997
You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women.
tiny.ag/gelcd01a · submitted 1997
You should emulate your heroes, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.
tiny.ag/renqzacv · submitted 1997
You're a genius if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning is electricity -- but you're an idiot if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning can kill you.
Unknown, (from Mad Magazine), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/8ebocmyu · submitted 1997
Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/sdc7t2fc · submitted 1997
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/wbhpks76 · submitted 1997
Measure twice because you can only cut once.
tiny.ag/5ce9bwks · submitted 1997
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
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