I have 3 but would LOVE to hear more…
You can always have more but you can’t have less
This one’s from my dad and it really stuck with me. You can, and really should, apply this to any intoxicant.
On the pitch is off the streets
This is about getting restless kids, or kids who might be in a bad situation, into sports.
The axe forgets but the tree remembers
Translation on this one: People who cause hurt are less likely to remember than those it affected.
people don’t remember what you say or do nearly as much as they remember the way that you make them feel.
Don’t let school get in the way of your education
The one that stuck with me the most was one I heard a long time ago:
You will know the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret.
Unfortunately, I never became disciplined, but now that I’m old and full of regrets at least I know it was right.
never carry what you can roll, never roll what you can leave.
back saving advice from an old stagehand.
It doesn’t TAKE all kinds, we just HAVE all kinds.
Nature bats last.
The earth isn’t dying, it is being killed, and those killing it have names and addresses.
This will be an odd one. I get a lot of anxiety. But as twisted as it is, one of my mentors said to me:
Relax, no one is shooting at you.
Some people only speak one language.
How can you expect great things if you don’t take any risks?
All organizations are a hirearchy to benefit the people on their top.
Both from the webnovel “Reverend Insanity.” Protagonist was kind of an edgy murder-hobo at times, but I really needed to hear both these quotes from a random fantasy book in highschool.
Niether a borrower nor a lender be.
A few from the file I keep:
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. - Jan van de Snepscheut
I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned. - Richard Feynman
Give a man a mask and he’ll show you his true face. - Oscar Wilde (paraphrased)
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - C.S. Lewis
Magic is science you can’t explain. Science is magic you can. - My Daughter
You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago. - Alan Watts
What you do to achieve your goals must never become more important than the goals themselves. - Anonymous
Feynman’s quote goes HARD. full on 1 sentence diss track to authoritarianism!
Yes, including the authoritarianism of social intimidation.
The days are long but the years are short.
The graveyard is full of irreplaceable people.
No one is really irreplaceable
To a business, to the government, but in a human context of genuine togetherness, plenty of people are irreplaceable.
This quote reads like something I’d see on the owner-manager’s wall.
“The graveyard is filled with people who had the right of way”
Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it
Better safe than sorry
Waste not, want not
Don’t put it down, put it away
Your brain is only as long as your pencil
A shorter version I’ve always said for the first one is “I’d rather be looking at it than looking for it”
Haven’t seen it yet.
You can make no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure, that is life. -Picard
