Your Philosophical One Liners

When I was a young kid I had crippling shyness and self consciousness. I fought it by repeating the mantra inside my head in uncomfortable situations "they'll never see you again" and it worked.

 

Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. [I think that is the saying]?

 

jack of all trades, ace of none

 

"My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, excellent situation, I am attacking."

- Marshal Foch, 1914

 

Bobby, I always liked G.K. Chesterton's advice “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” Understand properly, this sounds like great advice for taking the first steps into new projects.

 

Don't sweat the small stuff.

 

Rumi: The wound is a place where the Light enters you.

 

and it's all small stuff.

 

Comes to mind,
Don't make a mountain out of a mole hill,

 

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything else looks like a nail.

 

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than an idea if it is the only one you have.

 

A man of true science uses but few hard words, whereas the smatterer in science thinks that by mouthing hard words he understand hard things. ---- Herman Melville.