Success and Failure

Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

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It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

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It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.

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It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.

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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, in Success and Failure

Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.

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If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.

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If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

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If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.

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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.

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If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

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I'd rather be rich than stupid.

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I wish I were what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

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If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

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If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.

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