Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/9einaqki · submitted 1997
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/r5b2304k · submitted 1997
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
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/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/27fahwgf · submitted 1997
A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.
tiny.ag/ow0faywn · submitted 1997
A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.
tiny.ag/6ldwnwhf · submitted 1997
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
tiny.ag/8aevknh4 · submitted 1999
A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.
tiny.ag/5hnyq46s · submitted 1997
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
tiny.ag/6nolsedp · submitted 1997
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
tiny.ag/t9lhndlz · submitted 1997
A winner never quits -- a quitter never wins.
tiny.ag/ckd9cv6r · submitted 1997
After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
tiny.ag/oic7hxlc · submitted 1997
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
tiny.ag/lv1mbo3c · submitted 1997
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
tiny.ag/hwk0yobb · submitted 1997
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/dhkq0tg9 · submitted 1997
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
tiny.ag/6dhgl4cy · submitted 1998 by Ian Robinson
An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
tiny.ag/o9rrnhjx · submitted 1997
Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
tiny.ag/frlb4xpk · submitted 1997
Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.
tiny.ag/qyrspbdi · submitted 1997
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
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