Success and Failure

Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark, in Success and Failure

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford, in Success and Failure

If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Success and Failure

If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.

W. C. Fields, in Success and Failure

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Edwin Louis Cole, in Success and Failure

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

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius, in Success and Failure

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel, in Success and Failure

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

With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Ransom K. Ferm, in Success and Failure

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

A .44 magnum beats four aces.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A day for firm decisions! Or is it?

Unknown, in Success and Failure