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January 08, 2019, 02:09 PM

vinnybass

Truths ... lessons learned that should be shared -

Show up every day.
Work hard & behave.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
What's down in the well comes up in the bucket.

"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."

January 08, 2019, 02:14 PM

Pal

To paraphrase Mark Twain, it's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're an idiot than open it and remove all doubt.

Jim

January 08, 2019, 02:20 PM

sjtill

Someone's old signature line on SigForum, but stuck with me because it is indisputably both true and important:

"You will not rise to the occasion. You will default to your level of training."

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“ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne

January 08, 2019, 03:04 PM

ffemt44

A large job is just a series of smaller jobs put together.

January 08, 2019, 03:13 PM

Wasabibill

You put dollars in the bank, not percents. (Remember this when you own a business)

January 08, 2019, 03:40 PM

JoseyWales2

Reality and the laws of physics will win every single time.

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"These things you say we will have, we already have."
"That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra."

January 08, 2019, 04:33 PM

TexasScrub

If you step in it and it looks like dog poop, there is absolutely no reason to smell your shoe, since it was indeed dog poop.

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He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.

January 08, 2019, 05:04 PM

Loswsmith

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

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Life Member NRA & Washington Arms Collectors

Mistake not my current state of joshing gentle peevishness for the awesome and terrible majesty of the towering seas of ire that are themselves the milquetoast shallows fringing my vast oceans of wrath.

Velocitas Incursio Vis - Gandhi

January 08, 2019, 05:12 PM

Chris42

If you see a shop teacher with short fingers ask him how it happened. His lessons might save yours.

And along similar lines -

I try to learn from other people’s mistakes - so I don’t have to make them all myself.

January 08, 2019, 05:19 PM

Tuckerrnr1

The good news is, all bleeding eventually stops.

The bad news is, all bleeding eventually stops.

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I may be a bad person, but at least I use my turn signal.

January 08, 2019, 05:23 PM

Ryanp225

If you can't explain something to someone in simple terms you don't understand it well enough.

January 08, 2019, 05:25 PM

vthoky

Speak clearly, carefully, and politely... even in those times when you'd rather sound like one of Samuel L. Jackson's characters.

January 08, 2019, 05:26 PM

slabsides45

Every man (and woman) is a hero in his own mind.

When my kids say "that's not fair!," I respond that the fair is a place they judge pigs. This is life.

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"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving."
-Dr. Adrian Rogers

January 08, 2019, 05:36 PM

FLhiker

Two of the easiest things in life to waste:

...other people’s time, and

...other people’s money.

This should be carved into the seats in Congress and in every desk in every administrative agency - state, local and federal.

January 08, 2019, 05:49 PM

ewills

Trust your gut feeling if a choice has to be made and you are not totally sure which way to go. The safe choice is not always the right one.

January 08, 2019, 06:04 PM

mcrimm

If you want loyalty.....buy a dog.

You want it good, fast and cheap? Pick 2.

Mike

I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown
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When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham

January 08, 2019, 06:22 PM

Balzé Halzé

No one wins in a head-butt.

~Alan

Acta Non Verba
NRA Life Member (Patron)
God, Family, Guns, Country

Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan

"Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle

January 08, 2019, 06:41 PM

Doc H.

quote:
Originally posted by Tuckerrnr1:
The good news is, all bleeding eventually stops.

The bad news is, all bleeding eventually stops.

And the other three things I learned in surgery in addition:

1. Bleeding always stops (as noted).
2. Oxygen is good, germs is bad.
3. If you can see through it, you can cut it.
4. Fall backwards.

"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day"

January 08, 2019, 06:46 PM

horsedoc

You don't learn anything the second time you get kicked by a horse.

January 08, 2019, 06:56 PM

YooperSigs

Never stand up in a canoe.
If the enemy is in range, so are you.