Best Advice Given, in a Single Sentence

[bctexas]

I can explain it for you, but I cannot understand it for you.

If you want something done, find a busy person.

 

[Kaizen]

If you're the smartest person in the room you're in the wrong room.

 

[EOC_Jason]

This is America... nothing is free...

 

[bwringer]

Have a plan for when the wrench slips off.

Nice.

the minute you work on a family members car everything there after is your fault.

Also applies to computers.

People care about what you know, when they know what you care about.

That right there is real wisdom. Deeper 'n whale ****, I tell ya.

 

[classicharleyj]

My life mission statement...
"Live a balanced life."
Jim

 

[dr_clyde]

"Don't stick your finger where you wouldn't put your pecker."

 

[kwschumm]

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

 

[B.S.A. (ret.)]

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." (Teddy Roosevelt) Advice given to me when I started coaching high school basketball.

Also paraphrased by Clint Eastwood in Heartbreak Ridge, "Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!"

 

[PRH44]

What a man fears says more about what he believes than anything he does.

Work hard and love harder.

Keep it simple because the world will make it complicated.

Take something from everything but take nothing that is not freely given.

Everything you see, hear and feel belongs to you for life, use it wisely.

 

[AffableCurmudgeon]

The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail.

 

[JasonB1989]

'Stay away from fast women and slow horses'

'You'll go a long way in a long day'

Both from a old boss of mine.

 

[jeffmoss26]

"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."

 

[Ls1bmw]

"It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit"
"Drive slow, wreck slow"

 

[CoogarXR]

-From a girl I worked with, in regards to working with her spouse: "You can't have your honey where you make your money"

-From a plastic surgeon I once chatted with: "The enemy OF perfection IS perfection". This goes for body work, woodworking, anything of that sort too; where you strive for perfection, screw it up, then keep heaping repairs on, and it ends up looking worse than if you had just quit a long time ago.

-From a real estate tycoon I was friends with, in regards to trespassing on soon-to-be auctioned vacant properties "Act like you are supposed to be there, and nobody will bother you". I have found this to be true in many cases. Just do whatever you have to do, right out in the open, and people won't give it a second look. If you tip-toe around and keep looking over your shoulder, people will be suspicious of you...

 

[cpttuna]

Proper,Prior,Planning,Prevents,Piss,Poor Performance.

 

[mizzoutrover]

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle-Thomas Jefferson

 

[mrobins297aaa]

from a conversation with my doctor:
me: before we start don't forget the oath you doctors take
doc: you mean "first do no harm"?
me: no not that one, the other one
doc: what other one?
me: never make a diagnosis you don't have a cure for
doc: yeah I forgot about that one
me: I have just put in place the final piece that I need to guarantee that there is no way I'm dropping dead in my fifties
doc: oh yeah what might that be?
me: I turned 60

 

[mrobins297aaa]

Didn't read the whole thread. If this one was posted I apologize.

From my Dad: Any day above ground is a good day

Don

or "Dad how you doing, well I'm still on this side of the sod"

 

[Musicinabottle]

Don't believe everything you think.

 

[mrobins297aaa]

Remember, any simple problem can be made worse if enough meetings can be made to discuss it.

 

[Z2V]

“Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack, off a horse, and helping your uncle ******** a horse.”

And we have a WINNER

 

[Bigbandguy]

....as I was leaving for College..from my dad. "Try as you might you can't get it all. "
and yes he was referring to what you think he was... didn't stop me from trying but he was in fact correct.

 

[zigzagfrog]

It's not the outcome but the intent

You can't turn your back on your face

 

[Kennybill]

"If you don't have a good head, you better have good legs."
"Get it while it's sugar because it turns to ****."

 

[slamin81]

TREAT PEOPLE AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED

 

[MushCreek]

'Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's very dark.'

(About ***) 'The position is ridiculous, the pleasure momentary, and the cost is exorbitant.'

(And the one I need to remember more often) ' Better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.'

 

[roscoe2000]

A smart person never tells you how smart they are.

 

[Sgt Beavis]

When I was pretty young, around 10, I asked a friend of my uncle why he was getting a divorce. He simply said,

"Marriage is work. When you stop working on it, it dies."

For some reason that always stuck with me. It has, in part, kept me married for the last 22 years.

 

[disston]

Don't **** where you eat.

From an ex-boss that didn't think it was a good idea for me to be chasing the secretary.

 

[KMdef9]

A smart person never tells you how smart they are.

On the same line:

A person who knows how to fight doesn't tell you either.

 

[isb cornbinder]

A female was heard saying:
Yes, my legs are toughing at the top. If you were this close to my lady parts, you would be touching yourself also.

 

[oldgto]

Can't never could.

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Always spend less than you make.

 

[Ray-CA]

From my Dad:

"Garlic salt is good on a steak."
"Don't **** were you sleep"
"Drink only good whisky"
"A mans handshake is his word, and his word is his handshake"

Ray

 

[SPDMETL]

A gift from ME!

the right thing to do is almost never the easy thing

 

[dchawk81]

....as I was leaving for College..from my dad. "Try as you might you can't get it all. "
and yes he was referring to what you think he was... didn't stop me from trying but he was in fact correct.

In college you can get most of it though.

 

[Rod N]

My Dad
"Poor man can't afford to buy cheap because he can't afford to buy it twice"

Me
Woman
"Crazy in bed, crazy in the head"

 

[kiser312]

My Dad
"Poor man can't afford to buy cheap because he can't afford to buy it twice"

Me
Woman
"Crazy in bed, crazy in the head"

Crazy in bed = crazy in the head , is 100% true .

 

[-Brent-]

The best boss I've ever had, Joe Comstock (RIP), said this to me, many times. "A woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still." It's not just for women, either. I believe it's anyone that has any opposing opinion.

 

[bambbrose]

"An hour of sleep before 10 PM is worth two in the AM" - I've found this to be true
"The hard thing about hard things is that they are hard" - You just got to get to it sometimes
"Complacency kills"