Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A winner never quits -- a quitter never wins.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Mao Tse-Tung, in Success and Failure

I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.

Tim McGowan, in Success and Failure

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Vincent T. Lombardi, in Success and Failure

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Abraham Maslow, in Success and Failure

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence, in Success and Failure

Do, or do not. There is no try.

George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back (Yoda), in Success and Failure

A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.

Unknown, in Success and Failure