Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley
Mason Cooleywas an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.
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My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
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Successful innovations become conventions.
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I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.
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I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.
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If the current is right, one can drift to success.
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To succeed, find the right rut and stay with it.
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Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
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The wretchedness of failure is the great attraction of success.
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As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.
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Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
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Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.
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A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.
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To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.