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.

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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.

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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.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #48

Any way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #47

The vast majority of people are smart and well-intentioned.

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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. 🙂

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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.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #44

As Click and Clack used to say, it’s the stingy person who pays the most.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #43

Sometimes, an ounce of inaccuracy can save a pound of explanation.

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