Arguing with the weather only makes you wetter.
Measure twice, cut once.
One drop raises the sea.
As jy dom is. moet jy kak.
When I was a teenager and would get into trouble doing something I had previously been in trouble for, my dad would tell me “There’s no lesson in the second kick from a mule.”
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“You can’t win if you don’t play the game!”
–My neighbor, who helped set up the California Lottery’s communications network
“True. But if I don’t play, I won’t lose either. Do I maybe win a zillion dollars next Wednesday, or do I definitely get a meal at the cafeteria tonight?”
–My response.
From a poster on the choir director’s door:
A drawing of a pig in a shallow mud-puddle and the captions…
[COLOR=“DarkRed”]Don’t try to teach a pig to sing.
It’s a waste of time with no chance of success.
And it annoys the pig.
I told my wife about that poster and we laughed about it.
Now, when my wife asks why I don’t speak up more about subtle and not-so-subtle racism, religionism, et cetera, I merely have to say, “Because it would be like teaching a pig to sing.” and she understands.
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I can’t explain the time it takes
to make you understand…
…–Robin Zander (Cheap Trick)
…Never Had a Lot To Lose
…Lap of Luxury
Said by my wife on 9/11, which made us a lot of money:
“I don’t know who did this, but whoever it was is getting a shitload of bombs dropped on them. Now would be a good time to invest in defense companies”
True leadership isn’t inspiring those who believe in you-It is inspiring those who don’t.
Half the world is below average in intelligence…but how would you look if it wasn’t?
The worst of us love, learn, feel joy, feel pain, have plans, have regrets, have hopes, have fears-By labeling anyone “inhuman” you label yourself.
That’s actually an idiom in France ! “Quand on n’a pas de tête, il faut avoir des jambes”. When you don’t have a head, you gotta have legs.
The better you look, the more you see.
In your dealings with people, remember, everyone is fighting their own war.
Cash me outside, how 'bout dat.
I was going to start a new topic, but this one seemed pretty perfect to post in.
Years ago, I had a friend, Stan, who owned a fairly famous seafood place in town (the Salt Cellar, for those who know Scottsdale). He related the following story to me…
They used to offer a big plate of escargot at a very good price. Best price in the Valley. They didn’t sell all that well, although there was a group of regulars who used to come in on Fridays, and order plate after plate of them. Stan went over to them one Friday, and told them that they should enjoy them, while they could, because he was going to take them off the menu due to poor sales.
One of the guys looked at him, sighed, and said “Double your price.” Stan said “What!?.” They guys said “Yeah, they are too cheap. Nobody wants to eat cheap snails.”
Stan doubled his price, and sales doubled also.
Good advice.
Our maxim in SAR was “Don’t become a victim that needs to be rescued too.”
Back when everyone wore your basic Vibram hiking boots, we would cut a special pattern in the soles so that if you left a trak, it would be recognized if it was a person from our group.
Never plan ahead, lest the term “premeditated” come up in court.
“Lift with your legs”
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
“We suffer more in imagination and then in reality“ – Seneca,
As somebody who confronts anxiety and procrastination regularly, the truth of this maxim is repeatedly demonstrated. (It’s also a foundational quote for Stoicism, something I’ve found to be very useful).
Is that deliberately misquoted? The actual quote is “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” Your version seems to say something different, that we suffer in imagination and then we suffer again in reality.
No, I fucked it up.
I blame, uh, well, me.
(And autocorrect. And my attention sp - squirrel!)
I wouldn’t let Seneca off the hook. He could have been clearer.
My father’s advice on study habits - “It’s better to worry before an exam than after.”
“Do the hardest thing first”, my mother told me. Mostly, it’s worked.
I did a ice climbing course in Peru in my youth (only a weekend and I only did it as a girl from the hostel I was staying at wanted to go).
One of the key take aways was “don’t die with a surprised expression on your face”. Basically understand and assess the risks you are taking, don’t blunder into a dangerous situation without stopping and assessing it first.