Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/yespcqa6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
No pressure, no diamonds.
tiny.ag/koexwc3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (364 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
tiny.ag/knpetbhm · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's no success like failure, And failure's no success at all.
Bob Dylan, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/piklxjab · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/varfwyts · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (327 ratings) · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/xuprbfr6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
tiny.ag/ck8ji3nm · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
tiny.ag/0csjlftm · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.
tiny.ag/f65xdmkd · ★★☆☆ Fair (182 ratings) · submitted 1997
You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.
tiny.ag/k41czawu · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
tiny.ag/qhi9mj1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
tiny.ag/jlmjkna4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (165 ratings) · submitted 1997
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
tiny.ag/xjrw4zcp · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
tiny.ag/gpnuvt0q · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
tiny.ag/lc1buagj · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot produce a baby in one month by impregnating nine women.
tiny.ag/tnfwhxlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (185 ratings) · submitted 1997
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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