If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
Louis-Ferdinand CélineTags: faking-it good-advice
It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Tags: science atheism television good-advice nobel-prize open-minded suggestion
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira GandhiTags: good-advice dichotomy
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
Samuel BeckettTags: waiting good-advice motto hide hunt hunted
You should fight like hell if you get attacked on the street, or in your home. The old thinking was, especially with women, submit, give in, maybe the guy will give you a
break and not kill you. Now, maybe you will get raped, but
least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't
just lie down and take it. You don't know how many home-invasion scenes we walk in on where the people are sitting there all tied up and all dead. There'll be four, five people, a family, mayb...more "You should fight like hell if you get attacked on the street, or in your home. The old thinking was, especially with women, submit, give in, maybe the guy will give you a
break and not kill you. Now, maybe you will get raped, but
least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't
just lie down and take it. You don't know how many home-invasion scenes we walk in on where the people are sitting there all tied up and all dead. There'll be four, five people, a family, maybe some guests: enough to put up a fight. And you know they let themselves get tied up. You just know the guys said, 'We just want to tie you up. We won't hurt you.' You'd think the people would realize — why do they want to tie us up if they don't want to hurt us? But they bought it. It always gives us a little chuckle.
Tags: good-advice true-crime
She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
Patrick RothfussTags: integrity character good-advice
Good advice is a toxic gas for hardhearted's lungs.
Toba BetaTags: good-advice hard-hearted
Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress people that they don't like!"
Nothing to do w/ "books" -- Just like the quote!
Tags: celebrity good-advice credit-and-debt
Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
Atwood H. TownsendTags: reading pleasure good-advice enjoyment book-lover-wisdom dnf reading-motivation
Let me tell you a secret: every time self-doubt crawls in to your skull, grab that mother by the throat and kick the ever-loving shit out of it. Trust me. You only succeed in this business when you know, absolutely know in your heart you will succeed. It’s like the guy says, if you think you’ll win or you think you’ll lose, you’re right." ~ Ross "Melon-Head" Mellon, to Ellie Bourke
Tony McFaddenTags: inspirational good-advice
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