Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/cajbytn9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest thing man can create is himself.
tiny.ag/i1mqw56v · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
The future belongs to those who dare.
tiny.ag/zt1r3of5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
tiny.ag/u05c2aqo · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.
Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/5edntuvq · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.
tiny.ag/ovsgddqq · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
tiny.ag/6bpzcbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
tiny.ag/zoq7mjnx · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
tiny.ag/xe17luio · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
tiny.ag/5ce9bwks · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
tiny.ag/bpgwmk3n · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/u1iblda0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
tiny.ag/ohvcxj98 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/t2ay3kb5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.
tiny.ag/vhuaqm1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
tiny.ag/hsipkpnw · ★★☆☆ Fair (160 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
tiny.ag/aqhc8mvh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1060 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
tiny.ag/fsy6lb1v · ★★☆☆ Fair (35 ratings) · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
tiny.ag/stfdm53a · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
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