Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/br8cx6zt · ★★☆☆ Fair (628 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
tiny.ag/qv5khfql · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Werner von Braun, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/hobsgyde · ★★☆☆ Fair (343 ratings) · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/vv4beyfe · ★★☆☆ Fair (974 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4t1buvks · ★★☆☆ Fair (1278 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/aodtqiq7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (966 ratings) · submitted 1997
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/rsmenqfu · ★★☆☆ Fair (1047 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/dcbu6t7e · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward.
tiny.ag/bvz84ngk · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/jro1ckeb · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
tiny.ag/ck8ji3nm · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (374 ratings) · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ivbmwcle · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
tiny.ag/varfwyts · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (327 ratings) · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/xuprbfr6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
tiny.ag/yespcqa6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
No pressure, no diamonds.
tiny.ag/koexwc3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (364 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/0jnrf9e2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing good ever ends.
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