Success and Failure

Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

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Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.

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Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

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Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.

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Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from a baby.

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Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth.

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Blessed are those who expect nothing... for they will not be disappointed.

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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

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Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.

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Boren's Laws: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.

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Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

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By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you.

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Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.

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Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

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DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.

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Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

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You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.

Wallace Arnold, in Success and Failure

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt, in 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