Success and Failure

Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.

Ben Bayol, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?

Alan James Bean, in Success and Failure

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.

James G. Bennet, in Success and Failure

99% of the game is half mental.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis, in 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

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, in Success and Failure

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, 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

He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure

Sloppy thinking only gets worse with decapitation.

Dr. Squid, in Success and Failure

It's not over until it's over.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker, in Success and Failure

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman, in Success and Failure

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Sun Tzu, in Success and Failure