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What is the best advice you've ever received?
Posted on 05/24/2014 9:32:56 PM PDT by MNDude
Maybe it was some wise warning your dad once gave you, or maybe it was something useful your coach told you that still guides you today, but what would you consider that best advice you've ever received?
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: advice; chat
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To: sten
those not bored in meetings are the leaders setting direction and policyNah, they are just talking and wasting time that should be spent getting it done, most of the meetings anyhow.
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posted on
05/25/2014 8:58:21 PM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: MNDude
My dad...had some excellent advice.
But the best was this....
Son, you can always get more money. But, you can't get more time.
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posted on
05/25/2014 9:01:55 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: thesearethetimes...
Better than a “What kinda handgun should I buy?” thread!
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posted on
05/25/2014 9:09:51 PM PDT
by
pingman
("The pendulum always swings.")
To: MNDude
Perfection is the enemy of good enough.
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posted on
05/25/2014 9:17:40 PM PDT
by
Auntie Mame
(Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
I’ve seen silver turn to dross
Seen the very best there ever was
And I’ll tell you it ain’t worth what it costs
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posted on
05/25/2014 9:21:26 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Yardstick
Thank you. I plagarized them from “The Four Agreements” by don Miguel Ruiz.
I attempt to live my life by them.
To: MNDude
From mom: don’t enter into marriage thinking you can change a man. You can’t. All the things he does now that drive you crazy will just be magnified. You have to learn to live with them or decide if they will be deal breakers.
From dad after I graduated from college and got my first apt.
Me; I’m lonely
Dad: get a cat.
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posted on
05/26/2014 3:03:33 AM PDT
by
Gefn
(More cowbell)
To: Gefn
Walk Fast.....
Met my first millionaire at age 19. I asked him for advice to achieve and he said just walk fast. When asked to explain he said,” Co-workers and bosses will see you as someone on a mission, somewhere to go, something to do. Additionally, you cannot walk fast and daydream. You brain also goes into a higher gear, you think.....Look around at the slouchers, they are walking slow, just meandering.
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posted on
05/26/2014 3:21:51 AM PDT
by
phil1750
(Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
To: MNDude
Effervescent if your fiddlestix.
Soupy Sales, 1966
To: MNDude
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posted on
05/26/2014 4:41:24 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
To: MNDude
A guy I played music with, he was actually the band leader, i.e. “The So and So Band”, told me once he never liked people that would not take responsibility for their actions.
That is one tidbit that has stayed with me ever since. If I screw up, I tell my boss about it before he asks.
To: Big Giant Head
191 posts, and not ONE of the posts mentioned “preview before posting.”
To: Romulus
You shoulda been a Country & Western singer.
To: MNDude
“Nobody gives a f—k about your career, except you.”
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posted on
05/26/2014 5:36:15 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Gefn
You’ve got a wise mom and dad.
To: Marie
That was my parents’ philosophy as well.
It worked out nicely.
To: MNDude
Never aspire to be the indespensible man. The indespensible man is also the unpromotable man.
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posted on
05/26/2014 5:43:54 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
Saying the word “No!” I’ve “respectfully” declined many an invitation to do this or that. Earlier in life I’d almost always say yes, not wanting to appear antisocial. I read Thoreau and he had a terrific impact on my view of things. In Walden he wrote of our frittering away of life by engaging in trivialities. He was absolutely right. More and more, life becomes a series of inane exertions if we don’t get a handle on things. Saying “no” can really help.
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posted on
05/26/2014 5:44:32 AM PDT
by
donaldo
To: South40
The opposite of the advice I gave my son, many years ago. I advised him to marry a girl he was ambivalent about because of her excessive spending and expectations that he would provide the means for her to live the life style she had accustomed herself to.
Thank God that he did not heed my consul, which wasn't really more than a practical solution on my part that weighed the pros and cons and favored the girl. Much later he married the perfect mate for him and I think of that particular piece of advice I gave him as a reminder of possible parental fallibility. Hits and misses but always trying.
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posted on
05/26/2014 5:44:56 AM PDT
by
mountainfolk
(God Bless the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands.)
To: sten
Despite my little quip in response to your reply you are actually correct so long as the kind of meetings we are talking about are ones that actually dig in and work a problem or move an organization towards accomplishment of a goal.
There is a saying though that it is hard to soar like an eagle if you are surrounded by turkeys. In that sense the meeting is only as good as the people that are in it - and leading it.
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posted on
05/26/2014 8:53:16 AM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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