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Category Archives: Lessons I’ve Learned the Hard Way
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #53
Corollary to Murphy’s Law: Before you can do anything, you have to do something else first.
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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #52
Haitian proverb: If you say hello to the Devil, he’ll eat you. If you don’t say hello to the Devil, he’ll eat you.
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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #51
For the most part, people do what they want to do, and don’t do what they don’t want to do.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #50
Drama teacher extraordinaire Gertrude Slack used to tell us not to worry if we blew our lines because nobody in the audience really knows the script.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #49
It’s not what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s when you “know” something that actually isn’t true.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #48
Any way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #47
The vast majority of people are smart and well-intentioned.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #46
Summed up in an African proverb that says: He who steps in cow dung does not die. I love this proverb! Embarrassment is temporary. 🙂
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #45
In any organization (school, business, society), if more than a small number of people are misbehaving, it’s because something is wrong with the system, not with the people.
Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #44
As Click and Clack used to say, it’s the stingy person who pays the most.