Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/nvfl7j9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (522 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
tiny.ag/kiehwrll · ★★☆☆ Fair (673 ratings) · submitted 1997
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
tiny.ag/hdkst9q4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (445 ratings) · submitted 1997
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · ★★☆☆ Fair (371 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
tiny.ag/tmknh1db · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · submitted 1997
99% of the game is half mental.
tiny.ag/4ocga7zg · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.
tiny.ag/gdmyudjb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.
tiny.ag/gwiaxqqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (436 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
tiny.ag/ogrpomi2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em?
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · ★★☆☆ Fair (324 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
tiny.ag/u5mb79tw · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/eswahi1x · ★★☆☆ Fair (200 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
tiny.ag/iyraxvda · ★★☆☆ Fair (365 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.
tiny.ag/zsgksyjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (316 ratings) · submitted 1997
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
tiny.ag/pdvztxjj · ★★☆☆ Fair (149 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · ★★☆☆ Fair (826 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/shbtdjjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
tiny.ag/pgsxbect · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1998
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it's been though a blender first.
Les Barker, An Infinite Number of Occasional Tables, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/kgnv53qx · ★★☆☆ Fair (3070 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
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