Anything is easy, if someone else must do it.
Not sure I can claim authorship, but “Everybody is ignorant in a lot of ways; for example, I have no idea how to change the spark plugs in my car. It’s when you don’t know (or even worse, don’t care) that you are ignorant that you start to act Stupid.”
Well, I like it and agree.
In training a new girl at work, I’ve found myself repeating a few things:
“Just act like you know what you’re doing. We’ll figure it out later.”
“I don’t know anything; I only know who to ask about it.”
And this one, which I don’t recall saying but it sounds like me. (A co-worker had written it down and posted it at her desk): “The people on the phone can’t see you flipping them the bird.”
Funerals are for the living, and first birthday parties are for the mothers.
Ya can’t run away from your problems, but you can have a helluva lotta fun tryin’!
There will always be those who would rather know than learn.
Your opinion isn’t valid simply because you have it.
“The problem is that we, the US, basically got a late alpha version of Democracy. We got it first, but it’s full of bugs, is missing a bunch of features, and has no working upgrade path.”
Blood is thicker than competence.
There’s big problems and little problems. Anything that can be solved with cash is a little problem.
You miss 100 per cent of the shots you don’t take.
- Wayne Gretzky
- Michael Scott
- mmm
After our server went down at work: “Technology isn’t just a bitch, she wears boots and carries a whip.”
To my son, the first time a girl broke his heart: “Some girls treat boys like clothes. They like to try them on, but don’t really want to keep anything.”
Second part, I like to put “…I’ll slash your tires.”
-Yoda
“Try? There is no try. Do, or do not.”
I always think of this when I see the meme “There’s no way I’m going to do <Insert impossible task> / Not with that attitude!”
More:
“If life is made up of failures, you’ don’t want to be known as the high score.”
“I don’t care about other people’s religions, I just wish they didn’t care so much about mine.”
“You know why people hate liberals? Because liberals lecture you on the “right way” to live…for example.”
Romanes eunt domus.
The things that bother you the most when done by others are the ones you do yourself.
To my son upon his first driving lesson: Don’t let “I had the right of way” be your epitaph.
I mutter this inside my helmet at least twice on the way to work and twice on they way home – although it’s never about the same people twice in a week:
Relax, rivet-brain! The Road is not a racetrack.
I mutter this inside my helmet at least twice a month, sometimes on the way to work or on the way home:
Mellow out, Mis(ter). [COLOR=Red]WE are not racing; I am not a rat.[/COLOR]
I say this whenever someone comes to my team with a great technological idea that will be “real easy to implement”:
Remember: A ‘simple’ task is never simple.
…and sometimes the person will respond “Well, it works in theory!”
To which I retort:
Sure! But Perpetual Motion works in theory.
[COLOR=Black]–G!
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Heh I’ve taught a few people driving before:
“Let me know when you need to go somewhere, I’ll stay off the sidewalk.”
“[Driving stick]: If you can go uphill, in reverse, over a speed bump, at 2 mph, you can do anything.”
“The most dangerous road in the world: a supermarket or shopping center full of people only looking at their cell phones.”
The Lord works in confirmationally-biased ways.
See, I think motorcycle riders have great thoughts, because the helmet keeps them bouncing around in there.
Inside my helmet, when I am on the way to work, I’ll sometimes wind up getting caught up in the traffic frustration, and wind up going faster than I want to, trying to “win” little traffic battles. Then some part of my brain chimes in with "Are you really in a hurry to get TO work?