success

"Looking back at this period , I have often wondered why General Taylor was seemingly unable to convince President Johnson that the U.S. strategy was a losing one. Taylor had been successively Presiden…"

"When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?"

"They had no game plan for losing. . . . Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete . . . get the game over with, get on the bus and …"

"When one is short, one should stand on a box to get a better view. The Twin Towers is to our ego what the box is to the shorties."

"Successful people don’t have friends."

"Hugh MacDiarmid, the twentieth century pioneer of the Scottish Renaissance, included the following lines in A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle :"

"Our primary concern has been U.S. global policy and propaganda, and the filtering and distorting effect of Western ideology, not the problems of reconstruction and modernization in societies that have…"

"It is a secret but I have pulled the chain out of the wall. I can see out the little window all I like."

"Robinson actor swings for the fences", by Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune"

"We ourselves have a tradition of taking beatings, and then winning wars," said Bocker."

"Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong."

"For most North Koreans the state equals the race, equals the country. This is where the North has been so much more successful than what I call the "Unloved Republic" of South Korea. There, as in Weim…"

"Globalization cannot be allowed to become the grand global casino where investors rig the system to guarantee that they always win"

"These incidents will never break down our determination nor undermine our achievements. Rather, they should encourage all parties to draw the necessary lessons and never detract from the imperative to…"

"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

"It will first of all be clear that not only incompatible but also compatible characters can be thought in emptily intended combinations. This indeed takes place very often, as a result of that parsimo…"

"In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln accomplished something almost miraculous. That is to say, what he had to do was to fight off the challenge of Douglas from the Republican side and at the same t…"

"If I have had any success in mathematical physics, it is, I think, because I have been able to dodge mathematical difficulties."

"Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swa…"

"Success makes some crimes honorable."