What is your MANTRA?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m just sitting here eating my lunch, trying to write out my objectives for the coming semester and I am teaching Psych Personality 204 next semester. We go over all the big guns and their theories: Freud, Jung, Fromm, Gestalt, Piaget etc…etc… and we also go over some eastern philosophies so the students can get a more global feel for what constitutes human personalities. And we go over the different formulas for personal success, Mantras if you will.

My Mantra ( one of them ;)) is: Do not Proselytize before you first Philosophize.

This carries many meaning for me. Essentially, at one time in our lives or another we speak before we think. It happens to the best of us. If you follow my mantra, many adverse things simply do not happen. You listen to the person with whom you are speaking, you speak when you know what to say and exactly how to say it.

I’ll raise my hand as being the first person to say, I do not do this all the time, and 9 times out of 10 it gets me in trouble. So I try and adhere to my mantra, and it keeps me out of trouble, especially with my witty wife :slight_smile:

So whats your mantra?

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“Be Bold with Bananas.”

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“Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?”

“If you must smoke, smoke salmon.”

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Sealy Posturepedic

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“why spell it right when you can spell it my way?”

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Honesty is always the best policy.

(I hate lying.)

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“I hate everybody”

and

“If people are going to let me walk all over them, they deserve it.”

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The journey is the joy.

Life is too short for bad music… or skipping dessert.

If they stare, wave like you know them.

Bite me.

Act like you know what you’re doing.

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“Don’t say anything about a person that you would not say to that person.” I repeat this to myself when the gossip-mongers start.

“Everyone has to die Mr. Big-Shot, who are you to worry about it?” I say this to myself when mortality gets me down.

I also repeat this almost constantly “Someone’s watching me.” But I’m not sure if it is a mantra or just paranoia.

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I don’t HAVE to do what the voices tell me,
I don’t HAVE to do what the voices tell me…

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“it’s just a ride”.

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It just doesn’t matter.
It just doesn’t matter.

a la Bill Murray in Meatballs. This is gotten me through many an absurd work situation.

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I’d rather be lucky than good

or

I don’t discriminate; I hate everyone equally.

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“No, Don’t Kill Them, They’re Not Worth the Prison Sentence.”

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mine is: Let it go.

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My Mantra is:

I did it first!

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“Serenity now”

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What? Me Worry? - Alfred E. Newman.

http://www.quotemeonit.com/newmana.html

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I will to do thy will.

My prayer beads are very worn with everything that goes on in my life. :wink:

And

The goddess doesn’t give us more than we can handle.
(but I really think she over estimated with me)

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“No matter how many tools you carry or supplies you order, you can’t do jack shit if you can’t mentally picture it.”

Tripler
Because a fickle imagination is the deadliest tool on the planet.