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Give me some advice!

steffee

steffee

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What's the best piece of advice you've ever taken, or wished you'd known before you did?

Nothing like "always be true to yourself", whatever that means...
 
steffee-
I don't know why you would exclude "always be true to yourself". Actually, the quote is, "To thine own self be true." It was written by William Shakespeare, and it is indeed the best advice I ever heard.
If you really want an explanation, it means that you can lie your head off to everyone until you're blue in the face, but don't try to deceive yourself because if you do, you will travel down the road to your destruction, and you will lose the most important thing you have, which is the trust you have in yourself.
Makes perfect sense to me.
 
I don't know what the best advice I've ever gotten was. I know what the best advice I've recently gotten was though. We'll have to settle for that.

Says a family member this Christmas: "You need to be more like you were as a kid. Stop being lying because you don't want to offend people. People who wouldn't take honest criticism over lying niceties aren't worth your opinions in the first place".

I've been trying hard to listen to him, but it isn't always easy. :rolleyes:
 
My dad gave me several pieces of good advice, which I often hear in my head , such as "never come to a stop on railroad tracks". But the one I like best is another piece of driving advice that can be applied in other areas of life as well: "don't worry about what's behind you, worry about what's in front of you."
 
Miss Shelf said:
My dad gave me several pieces of good advice, which I often hear in my head , such as "never come to a stop on railroad tracks". But the one I like best is another piece of driving advice that can be applied in other areas of life as well: "don't worry about what's behind you, worry about what's in front of you."
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Good advice Miss Shelf.

I once hit a train with a car because I seen the lights of the locomotive way up the track. It was a dark, rainy, and foggy night. What I didn't know was that the locomotive was "pushing" the train (coal cars) down the track.
 
Libre said:
steffee-
I don't know why you would exclude "always be true to yourself". Actually, the quote is, "To thine own self be true." It was written by William Shakespeare, and it is indeed the best advice I ever heard.
If you really want an explanation, it means that you can lie your head off to everyone until you're blue in the face, but don't try to deceive yourself because if you do, you will travel down the road to your destruction, and you will lose the most important thing you have, which is the trust you have in yourself.
Makes perfect sense to me.
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That's an interesting background. I don't necessarily not appreciate that "advice", it's just it has become so over-used and the meaning has altered, in a kind of Chinese-Whispery way... I like the "travel down the road to your destruction..." consequence.
 
Miss Shelf said:
My dad gave me several pieces of good advice, which I often hear in my head , such as "never come to a stop on railroad tracks". But the one I like best is another piece of driving advice that can be applied in other areas of life as well: "don't worry about what's behind you, worry about what's in front of you."
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Yeah, that's quite true, although buddhist principles (and possibly many others) would argue that you shouldn't worry about what is in front of you either, but merely what is now. I am guilty of worrying about what's already happened in the past and can't be changed, and so this is good advice, yet I imagine for many people, hard to put into practice.

mehastings said:
Says a family member this Christmas: "You need to be more like you were as a kid. Stop being lying because you don't want to offend people. People who wouldn't take honest criticism over lying niceties aren't worth your opinions in the first place".
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That's very true!

muggle said:
I once hit a train with a car because I seen the lights of the locomotive way up the track. It was a dark, rainy, and foggy night. What I didn't know was that the locomotive was "pushing" the train (coal cars) down the track.
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Jeez!! I hope you didn't get hurt!
 
Two bits of advice:

1. You can't judge a book by its cover.

2. You can't judge the depth of a well by the handle of the pump.
 
Spring always follows winter.

I also like:

The only thing I know for sure, is that I don't know anything for sure.
 
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