Success and Failure

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Daniel Dennett, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin, in Success and Failure

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, in Success and Failure

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

To err is human, to forgive unusual.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The more you know, the less you need to show.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The surest way of having something done is to forbid your kids to do it.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Success and Failure

The more you know, the less you think you know.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

Unknown, in Success and Failure