Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/wlihbcon · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
"It can't happen here" is number 1 on the list of famous last words.
tiny.ag/uqvndhdp · ★★☆☆ Fair (901 ratings) · submitted 1997
Become addicted to constant and neverending self-improvement.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/zan4dyde · ★★☆☆ Fair (869 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/k5r69m8l · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1997
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ikcjtldg · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
tiny.ag/rwq2lgkv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
tiny.ag/cya9lpyt · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
tiny.ag/br8cx6zt · ★★☆☆ Fair (628 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
tiny.ag/qv5khfql · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/hobsgyde · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/vv4beyfe · ★★☆☆ Fair (974 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4t1buvks · ★★☆☆ Fair (1278 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/aodtqiq7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (966 ratings) · submitted 1997
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/rsmenqfu · ★★☆☆ Fair (1047 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/dcbu6t7e · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward.
tiny.ag/bvz84ngk · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/jro1ckeb · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
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