Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/vtq15sgk · submitted 1997
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/uvpjrb6x · submitted 1997
Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
tiny.ag/axfjdopk · submitted 1997
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
tiny.ag/yqo9cx7w · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
tiny.ag/93thhysu · submitted 1997
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
tiny.ag/hd1r4yfi · submitted 1997
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
tiny.ag/impebxsb · submitted 1997
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
tiny.ag/zv26ipgu · submitted 1997
Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
tiny.ag/pyfjvpn5 · submitted 1997
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
tiny.ag/nhesdamx · submitted 1997
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
tiny.ag/dncdjxtf · submitted 1997
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/wyl7j4bs · submitted 1997
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
tiny.ag/hnbrayvq · submitted 1997
When one is trying to do something beyond one's known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
tiny.ag/mwivhu4q · submitted 1999 by Marty Milner
Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.
tiny.ag/gfofcun3 · submitted 1997
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/tgov7yf4 · submitted 1997
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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