Best advice ever given to you.

[cigarnv]

Vision without action is a day dream

Action without vision is a nightmare

[xibbumbero]

There's more value in a bottle of whiskey and an ugly girl then just an ugly girl.

If you were born to hang,ya don't have to worry about drowning. X:-P

[jay8354]

This is not from Bill Gates. It's an excerpt from the book "Dumbing Down our Kids" by educator Charles Sykes. It is a list of eleven things you did not learn in school and directed at high school and college grads.

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!

To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.

Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Of course, there is the less serious set of rules as per below.

DILBERT'S RULES OF ORDER

1. I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.

2. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

3. Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

4. Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.

5. Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they aren't there the first time, chances are you won't be needing them again.

6. I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem.

7. Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?

8. My reality check bounced.

9. On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

10. I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier.

11. You are slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.

12. Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

13. Everybody is somebody else's we*rdo.

14. Never argue with an id*ot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

15. A pat on the back is only a few centimetres from a kick in the @$$.

16. Don't be irreplaceable - if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

17. After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.

18. The more cr@p you put up with, the more cr@p you are going to get.

19. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.

20. Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

21. If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

22. When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

23. Following the rules will not get the job done.

24. When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

[naga5]

"there is plenty of blame to go around"

"things don't matter, people matter."

"there are three sides to every story,

yours, mine, and the truth."

rick

[Taino]

never ever think you have a golden pecker, if she goes to bed with you she's gone or will go with anybody

[CelticBasque]

From Dad:

"Eat healthy, live well and exercise.

Take care of your family and spend time with them, they're more important than anything else."

*This was especially important as he shared this the day before he left to have surgery to remove Cancer from his body. He didn't think he was going to live through it and, as a result, we had a great evening full of sharing with each other as well as my wife and my mom.

[cls515]

I'd have to reference the Bible. Things like expect persecution, love your neighbor, to serve is to love.

[DocRKS]

Try as hard as they might - STUPID is impossible to hide.....

and when something appears stupid to you - it's time to just walk away...

[univibe88]

From my dad:

Choose your battles wisely

Never burn bridges

If you fail at something, pick yourself up and try again

Everything in moderation and nothing in excess

He died from cancer when I was 18. Yet I know if I could talk to him now those 4 axioms would be the theme of any advice he'd give me.

[PigFish]

I have a few that come to mind:

"Nothing tastes better in summer than a stolen watermelon!"

"There is an ass (arse to some people) for every seat."

"Every day above ground is a good day."