Success and Failure

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

Damien Cannon, in Success and Failure

I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.

Tim McGowan, in Success and Failure

No pressure, no diamonds.

Mary Case, in Success and Failure

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Abraham Maslow, in Success and Failure

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

René Char, in Success and Failure

Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol, in Success and Failure

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Don Knuth, in Success and Failure

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Rudyard Kipling, in Success and Failure

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Søren Kierkegaard, in Success and Failure

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Danny Kaye, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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

Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Success and Failure

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones, in Success and Failure

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, in Success and Failure

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller, in Success and Failure

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Lord Kelvin, in Men and Women and Success and Failure

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Walt Kelly, in Success and Failure

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus, in Law and Politics and Success and Failure