Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/jvo6jzxe · submitted 1997
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
tiny.ag/he6rec8v · submitted 1997
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/hvtbkoet · submitted 1997
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
tiny.ag/pyfjvpn5 · submitted 1997
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
tiny.ag/dncdjxtf · submitted 1997
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/lpeqizys · submitted 1997
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
tiny.ag/0bmtlpd4 · submitted 1997
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
tiny.ag/p7nfwxgq · submitted 1997
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
tiny.ag/950guyxd · submitted 1997
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
tiny.ag/pxbmzdh5 · submitted 1997
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
tiny.ag/vjl9ro7i · submitted 1997
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
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
tiny.ag/cf7uraml · submitted 1997
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
tiny.ag/rxx8g4si · submitted 1997
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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/nms3wmpx · submitted 1997
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
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