Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/9nbvii3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't think, just do.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/fwsozshx · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · ★★☆☆ Fair (339 ratings) · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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/la8pw7kl · ★★☆☆ Fair (381 ratings) · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/uyr1lndu · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
tiny.ag/lasqyfqt · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
tiny.ag/6wplp1s3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
tiny.ag/5r2sagdx · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
tiny.ag/ka7fkx9f · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
tiny.ag/jlevctud · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
tiny.ag/dvzdavyb · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
tiny.ag/s4bygqtn · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
tiny.ag/k5r69m8l · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1997
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/y5vkzeae · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership, in Success and Failure
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