Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/avqob1zr · ★★☆☆ Fair (28 ratings) · submitted 1997
Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth.
tiny.ag/lmtj5cfu · ★★☆☆ Fair (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
Blessed are those who expect nothing... for they will not be disappointed.
tiny.ag/kbikw1yt · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
tiny.ag/odgzoipj · ★★☆☆ Fair (17 ratings) · submitted 1997
Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.
tiny.ag/tcqireyb · ★★☆☆ Fair (34 ratings) · submitted 1997
Boren's Laws: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.
tiny.ag/zmis8rln · ★★☆☆ Fair (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
tiny.ag/dm6wz1hm · ★★☆☆ Fair (21 ratings) · submitted 1997
By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you.
tiny.ag/nz2qcagl · ★★☆☆ Fair (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
tiny.ag/7a4ntqxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/znt3vhbp · ★★☆☆ Fair (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.
tiny.ag/2kneov7h · ★★☆☆ Fair (18 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/no2pawla · ★★☆☆ Fair (27 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do not believe in miracles -- rely on them.
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/sr1e2c3y · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
tiny.ag/p3dfzooi · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/woh9u2ra · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/zhi7upjz · ★★☆☆ Fair (419 ratings) · submitted 1997
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
tiny.ag/yuovagrx · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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