Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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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/6dhgl4cy · submitted 1998 by Ian Robinson
An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
tiny.ag/dhkq0tg9 · submitted 1997
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
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/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/oic7hxlc · submitted 1997
After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.
tiny.ag/ckd9cv6r · submitted 1997
After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
tiny.ag/t9lhndlz · submitted 1997
A winner never quits -- a quitter never wins.
tiny.ag/6nolsedp · submitted 1997
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
tiny.ag/5hnyq46s · submitted 1997
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
tiny.ag/8aevknh4 · submitted 1999
A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.
tiny.ag/tcqireyb · submitted 1997
Boren's Laws: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
tiny.ag/zmis8rln · submitted 1997
Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
tiny.ag/dm6wz1hm · submitted 1997
By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you.
tiny.ag/nz2qcagl · submitted 1997
Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/wjnnpmri · submitted 1997
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
tiny.ag/qhz1bahc · submitted 1997
Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/nhesdamx · submitted 1997
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
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