The expert: an ordinary man, away from home, giving advice.
Unknown wise person
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Laurence J. Peter
If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.
from Zen, Beginner's Mind
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less [until he knows a lot about nothing].
Nicholas Murray Butler
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons.
Dr. David Butler
Failure
We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.
Norman Jewison
If at first you do succeed try to hide your astonishment.
Harry F. Banks
We are all failures at least the best of us are.
James M. Barrie
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Dr. Edwin Land
If you get on the train today, you'll overpay your fare. But if you don't, you'll be left behind in the dust.
Chinese proverb
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George Patton
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Laurence J. Peter
Be willing to lose a battle in order to win the war.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.
Howard W. Newton
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
Unknown wise person
Failure has gone to his head.
Wilson Mizner
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
Anybody seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life.
Loeila, Duchess of Westminster
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Freedom and Work
To be at ease is better than to be at business.
Baltasar Graciαn
A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
Bob Black
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Chinese Proverb
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
The seat of freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work, does what he wants to do.
George Robin Collingwood