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Success and Failure

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tiny.ag/nhesdamx  ·  submitted 1997

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

Erik Nupponen, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/ubucsjmk  ·  submitted 1997

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/qhz1bahc  ·  submitted 1997

Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.

J. A. O'Fihely, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/wjnnpmri  ·  submitted 1997

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/0csjlftm  ·  submitted 2011 by peter

Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/la8pw7kl  ·  submitted 1997

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Rudyard Kipling, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s  ·  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  ·  submitted 1997

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Don Knuth, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/6wach9td  ·  submitted 1997

Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/yespcqa6  ·  submitted 1997

No pressure, no diamonds.

Mary Case, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/koexwc3k  ·  submitted 1997

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

René Char, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/oxoy2gsu  ·  submitted 1997

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/p7nfwxgq  ·  submitted 1997

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/950guyxd  ·  submitted 1997

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/pxbmzdh5  ·  submitted 1997

Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/vjl9ro7i  ·  submitted 1997

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/dlqoy9f3  ·  submitted 1997

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/cf7uraml  ·  submitted 1997

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/rxx8g4si  ·  submitted 1997

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/9einaqki  ·  submitted 1997

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure