If indecisive, choose one of your top favorites. And by the holy powers bestowed unto me through the machinations of this platform, I grant thee to even post more than one, too!
Friendship is when silence between two people is comfortable.
Never pass up the opportunity to pee.
And
If a restaurant serves breakfast all day, that’s what you should order.
–My dad
Also,
Dont cheap out on anything that keeps you off the ground. (Tires, shoes, mattress etc)
Your dad is my spirit animal.
“Never pass up the opportunity to keep your mouth shut.”
– Canopyflyer’s Mother circa 1982
“Work smarter, not harder.” - Scrooge McDuck
“Give me the strength to change the things I can change. And the wisdom to recognize them.”
“Discussing anything with an IT nerd; you will come to realize its like wrestling with pigs in the mud. They like it.”
“A Splendid Torch” by George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
“Sometimes, at the end of a sentence, I come out with completely the wrong fusebox. The problem with using the wrong words is a. that I don’t always notice, and b. orange water gibbon bucket of plaster.”
I think of this often and have to say we can all learn something from it.
[Note to add: it’s a throwaway line from Monty Python sketch. Second note to add: TheWrongFusebox was my reddit username for 15 or so years.]
What’s your takeaway from this lizard?
The main thing, I’d say, I’ve learned from this insight is sky flopping gurney fetlocks.
A couple from a co-worker:
If you don’t have time to do it correctly now, what makes you think you will have time to fix it later.
Remember, you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
And a couple from my grandmother:
Don’t study drunk, but if you do at least be a little tipsy when you take the test.
Don’t do anything to your car to make it stand it to the police.
Here’s a few from my time in the service:
“An okay plan applied immediately and vigorously is way better than a perfect plan ten minutes too late.”
“Are you willing to do it? No? Then don’t ask your troops to do it.”
“In the event that signals can neither be seen nor clearly understood, no Captain can do very wrong if he puts his ship alongside that of an enemy.”
Never make yourself a priority to someone that treats you like an option.
That’s a round down range, can’t pull it back
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
- Jean-Luc Picard. In Star trek: The Next Generation s2e21
Excellent. I’m also partial to this bit in the Drumhead:
With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.
“This too shall pass”
Attar records the fable of a powerful king who asks assembled wise men to create a ring that will make him happy when he is sad. After deliberation the sages hand him a simple ring with the Persian words “This too shall pass” etched on it, which has the desired effect.
“This too shall pass”
I need to etch that into my toilet seat.
Or tattoo it on your ass https://youtu.be/Tg5kB4UcAuA
I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.
-Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
We evolve, beyond the person that we were a minute before. Little by little, we advance with each turn. That’s how a drill works!
Simon, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
