Success and Failure

Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?

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Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.

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Every solution breeds new problems.

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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

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Everything you do or say is public relations.

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Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterwards.

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Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

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God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

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Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

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DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.

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Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

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Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.

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By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you.

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Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

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Boren's Laws: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.

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Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.

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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith, in Success and Failure

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin, in Success and Failure