# What is the best advice you have ever gotten? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 10, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385 "2004-04-10T23:01:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385/101 "2004-04-18T05:19:58Z")
-The lord loves a workin’ man. -Don’t trust whitey. -See a doctor and get rid of it. ---
**Author:** ![Fanny\_May](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3be4f8/32.png) [@Fanny\_May](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fanny_May)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385/102 "2004-04-18T05:42:15Z")
Hagar once told his son “The most important thing for a Viking to remember is to always have dry socks!” ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385/103 "2004-04-18T10:27:47Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > “Whenever you’re walking through the cubicles, take a clipboard holding printed paper on it. People we’re assume you’re wandering around is work related.” > > It absolutely works. > > . That’s known here as the WADFA file- meaning ‘Wandering around doing f\*\*\* all file’ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385/104 "2004-04-18T17:48:41Z")
Trust your instincts. If it seems like the right thing to do, it probably is. More importantly, if it seems wrong, it most certainly is. If you have to ask whether something is o.k., then it isn’t. If you don’t love it, throw it away ( a corollary of Jones Law of Shelf Space). And a minor nitpcik… > [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > If you’ve got a 6, 7, 8, and 10, your chances of picking up that 9 on the draw are low. If you’ve got the 5, 7, 8, and 9, your chances of picking up a four or a ten are twice as good. Your chances might be twice as good, but you would be left with at best a ten-high. Maybe if you had the 6… ---
**Author:** ![LuckyMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e36b37/32.png) [@LuckyMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LuckyMe)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385/105 "2004-04-19T05:38:06Z")
No matter what happens in your life, remember it is your fault.- Former boss Those words are humbling and also makes me put my all in everything i do. Thanks Dick where ever you are. ---
**Author:** ![Vaioman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecccb3/32.png) [@Vaioman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vaioman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385/106 "2004-04-19T07:06:09Z")
my dad once told me, “I never go to sleep at night without making sure I have a place to crap when I wake up” Seems like good advice, as does most of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385/107 "2004-04-19T12:51:37Z")
“Do not touch Willie. Good advice.” - Homer Simpson [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-gotten/239385.md?page=5)