Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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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/h5blv72l · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
tiny.ag/n3oab9iu · submitted 1997
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
tiny.ag/cgb5omnm · submitted 1997
They are able because they think they are able.
tiny.ag/30roecxw · submitted 1997
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
tiny.ag/hcgfyxv9 · submitted 1997
A .44 magnum beats four aces.
tiny.ag/6v4py5gm · submitted 1997
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
tiny.ag/pcufmsbg · submitted 1997
Nothing recedes like success.
tiny.ag/lveycuka · submitted 1998
Just because you've been wiping your ass for twenty years, that doesn't mean you've been doing it right.
John Winsett, (said at a training seminar), in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/a5rzjxd3 · submitted 1997
Where there is no vision, there is no achievment.
tiny.ag/1dmiuqr0 · submitted 1997
People who never acheive happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep,they are thinking about what to complain about tommorrow.
tiny.ag/abk7huzh · submitted 1997
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
tiny.ag/27fahwgf · submitted 1997
A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.
tiny.ag/6ldwnwhf · submitted 1997
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
tiny.ag/8aevknh4 · submitted 1999
A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.
tiny.ag/zvet9opr · submitted 1997
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
tiny.ag/iuvg5od2 · submitted 1997
A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.
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