Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/elkpp3t4 · submitted 1997
Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.
tiny.ag/no4elqmc · submitted 1997
Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
tiny.ag/zvet9opr · submitted 1997
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
tiny.ag/6v4py5gm · submitted 1997
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
tiny.ag/pcufmsbg · submitted 1997
Nothing recedes like success.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/a5rzjxd3 · submitted 1997
Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.
tiny.ag/1dmiuqr0 · submitted 1997
People who never acheive happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep,they are thinking about what to complain about tommorrow.
tiny.ag/abk7huzh · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/hcgfyxv9 · submitted 1997
A .44 magnum beats four aces.
tiny.ag/hjgpjdl6 · submitted 1997
A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.
tiny.ag/8aevknh4 · submitted 1999
A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.
tiny.ag/6ldwnwhf · submitted 1997
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
tiny.ag/ow0faywn · submitted 1997
A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.
tiny.ag/27fahwgf · submitted 1997
A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.
tiny.ag/iuvg5od2 · submitted 1997
A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ivbmwcle · submitted 1997
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
tiny.ag/varfwyts · submitted 1997
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
tiny.ag/dlqoy9f3 · submitted 1997
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future, in Success and Failure
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