Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/mwivhu4q · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Marty Milner
Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/av8bxdwe · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.
tiny.ag/gfofcun3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/nhesdamx · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/qhz1bahc · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.
tiny.ag/wjnnpmri · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
tiny.ag/lpeqizys · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
tiny.ag/z9mjngin · ★★☆☆ Fair (1195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/jymwcve2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
tiny.ag/wnceow6i · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
tiny.ag/vtq15sgk · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/uvpjrb6x · ★★☆☆ Fair (721 ratings) · submitted 1997
Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
tiny.ag/axfjdopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (143 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
tiny.ag/93thhysu · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
tiny.ag/hd1r4yfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
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