Most Valuable Pieces of Advice

[Crabbensmasher]

Be honest here - what's the most valuable advice you've ever received?


It's a hard one. As for me, I'll have to think on it for a bit.

[motion denied]

"Don't trust the wealthy".

My grandfather, a landless rural prole. I did not understand this illiterate man's words at the time.

Can't remember any more major ones.

[blake 3:17]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihPOTDxMfE&feature=kp

[Prometeo liberado]

In the immortal words of the now deceased Harold Ramis, "never hit a man out of anger unless you're positive you can get away with it".

[synthesis]

"Every relationship that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health." - Nicholas Nassem Taleb

[AnaRchic]

"Never fear that which you can't control" - my own mind in the midst of a psychedelic experience

[Ele'ill]

*edit - drink as much as you can and eat food and relax nothing matters ever

-me right now I just told myself

[Prometeo liberado]

*edit - drink as much as you can and eat food and relax nothing matters ever

-me right now I just told myself

Cheeky existentialist.;)

[Sinister Intents]

My parents have always told me to try to be as happy and friendly as possible, even when I'm down, there be more to it though

[Rosa Partizan]

someone who tries to be everyone's friend, is noone's friend.

[Skyhilist]

"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not content myself with consulting a single authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others." --Mikhail Bakunin

Of course, this is more of a statement about Bakunin's anarchism but I choose to interpret it as advice anyways. Don't "rebel against authority" just for the hell of it and with no forethought, but don't ever trust anyone's word uncritically regardless of their position or knowledge.

Another one:

"That's the way it is. It's down there and I'm in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."

I know that it might be kind of vague in terms of what it means, but it always makes me feel sentimental. I think the point is that it's vague actually - everyone has a different definition of "living", and we've all got to figure out what that definition is for ourselves and pursue it if we ever want to be happy, regardless of the conditions surrounding our lives. Plus it's from my favorite movie, The Shawshank Redemption.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

'kill people burn shit fuck school'

[Psycho P and the Freight Train]

Don't take advice from people on the internet. :grin:

[Brutus]

'kill people burn shit fuck school'

You're a unicorn

[Os Cangaceiros]

"you can't win if you don't play"

One of my dad's sayings. If only I followed it more...

[Jimmie Higgins]

"You're going to make some mistakes and that's ok"

"Welcome to earth babies. It's hot in the summer and cool in the winter and there's only one rule that I know of on this planet and that is, you've got to be kind to eachother. God damn it babies, you got to be kind!" - Vonnegut.

[ckaihatsu]

Make a list of valuable pieces of advice.


= D

[MarcusJuniusBrutus]

"Don't forget the basics." law school prof.
He meant it for analyzing cases, but it is actually very good advice generally. It's a kind of a forest for the trees thing.

"A good physical connection does not necessarily mean a good electrical connection."
"Glue is only as good as the surface being adhered."
"That's an awful lot of hammering for a piece that is supposed to just slide in."
pretty self explanatory, from my grandfather.

"Never cross a picket line."

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” Hitchens

"Always shoot on the exhale and between heartbeats." Don't remember, but it does work. :grin:

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

'The Polski Grosik is a magical kingdom of cheap beer and pickled things and you should go there' - a polish computer programmer

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

"If you hate yourself, you can't love other people." - a former friend. I don't want to proclaim this some kind of Timeless Universal Truth, but it's proven true enough for me.

[Comrade Jacob]

The more you think you are free the more enslaved you are.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

'the self service tills at Tesco only operate on weight for loose goods, just put shit through as apples, they're the cheapest'

does require some careful choosing of tills and the right moment but it's a good way to save a few quid buying vegetables. I bet Tesco still makes a profit on it anyways (I seriously doubt they're on slim margins selling onions for like 36p each)

[cyu]

Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
- The Wizard of Oz


If you hit a man over the head with a fish, he'll have a headache for a day. But if you teach a man to hit himself over the head with a fish, he'll have headaches for the rest of his life.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

"Never trust a cop in a raincoat"

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

if you fail to prepare you prepare to fail

perfect practice makes perfect