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What is the best advice you received in your life?

We like to give advices. We like to receive them, when they are good.
Advice is probably the most spread form of sharing knowledge directly from one person to another.

What is the best advice you received in your life?

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    Vivek Trivedi 10+

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    Jul 21 2011: Be in the race, but with yourself only. Consider the world as a 5D movie, where everything may vanish in the blink of eye, compare yourself with yourself only on the basis of the every last day spent, and keep a daily check. everybody has to fight with himself and every fight is unique in a sense. Advices are based upon experiences, may or may not be applicable to every unique individual in the same way. Though most important thing, Do no harm to others.

  • Laura Dixon

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    Jul 20 2011: Big time is where you're at.

  • Kyle McCall

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    Jul 15 2011: “A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them.” ~Leonard Louis Levinson

  • Ken Stephens

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    Jul 13 2011: The truth will set you free, but first it will really piss you off.
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    Rafi Amin 10+

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    Jul 12 2011: Even impossible has the word possible

  • Clark Cameron

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    Jul 11 2011: Take nothing personally.
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    Greg Lipp

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    Jul 11 2011: "If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the minds worst disease"
    -Sent-ts'an
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    Koen Scholten

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    Jul 10 2011: I've heard many advises but the one that stuck with the most was the one my French teacher told us. She told us to "Don't take it personally" when someone insults you or talks down to you because you're different. She was one of the most eccentric persons I've ever met and simply a great person

  • Chris Hofmann

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    Jul 9 2011: A piece of simple advise I am operating from lately is this concept: People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care. Thus, I am seeking to take genuine interest in others and demonstrate caring which will hopefully allow me to mentor more people. I now believe that I need to know and care about all people that I hope to lead/mentor. Others must be confident that I have their best interests at heart.
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    Agustinus Lawandy

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    Jul 8 2011: -Responsibility means Response Ability, you're able to respond to anything however you want, responsibility is a burden.. and a privilege.
    -There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
    Just these were enough to open my eyes.
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    Pranay Bhatia 500+

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    Jul 5 2011: keep doing your work, don't worry about the result
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    Laszlo Kereszturi 500+

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    Jul 1 2011: Back in 1969, in first grade school, the librarian lady said to me: "These books are here for you to read, no matter the language they are printed!"

    • Finbarr Timbers

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      Jul 11 2011: This is great. Reading is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves.
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    sarah lee

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    Jun 29 2011: Jesus, "First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye"
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      Thomas Jones 50+

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      Jun 29 2011: Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. – Matthew 7:5
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    Martin Hassel 500+

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    Jun 28 2011: The great Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl once said: "Everything is possible, until the opposite is proven".
    Seeing a thousand white swans does not refute the existence of black swans...
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    Thomas Jones 50+

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    Jun 26 2011: What you are looking for is within you.
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    V K Madhavan 200+

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    Jun 26 2011: "Nothing can be worse than possessing the brains and ability and not applying either of them"

  • Ciaragh Nolan

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    Jun 23 2011: Love many, trust few. Always paddle your own canoe
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    Ronald Kimani

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    Jun 21 2011: If someone doesn't pay your rent or buy your food, pay for or oversee your education, or fix you when you're ill, why do you care what they say or think about you?

  • Mary Anne McMahon

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    Jun 19 2011: Courtesy of my dad - "If you can make a positive difference in someone else's life, do it."
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    Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+

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    Jun 18 2011: I don't know if this is the best I've got but this is certainly the funniest : EAT LIKE A PIG AND MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY!
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    Cornelia Coricovac

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    Jun 18 2011: Love as you wish to be loved and treat others as you wish to be treated.

  • Jaber Al Shadfan

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    Jun 17 2011: Don't be hard and breakable and leniant and squeezable
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    Audrey Misiano

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    Jun 14 2011: Learn to love!

  • Emory King

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    Jun 14 2011: My favorite:

    "Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances."
    - Sun Tzu

    and also:

    "Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively"
    - Socrates
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    Rafi Amin 10+

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    Jun 13 2011: The best advise I recieved in my life is.

    Give back to the community
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    spiral of hope

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    Jun 12 2011: > What is the best advice you received in your life?

    You have one mouth and two ears. Listen more than you talk.

  • Ross Kleiman

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    Jun 8 2011: I always liked what my dad said about my grandfather; that he always knew how to learn from other people's mistakes.
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    Baz Seal

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    Jun 8 2011: "Stand for something...or fall for anything"

    • Ross Kleiman

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      Jun 8 2011: This reminds me of a quote by Martin Luther King Jr.

      "A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
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        anthony bruni 30+

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        Jun 12 2011: Thats good
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        Kristofer Björnson 10+

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        Jun 14 2011: Even though being similar to each other, I think "Stand for something...or fall for anything" and "A man can't ride your back unless it's bent." has quite different meanings.

        The first having to do with fighting internal temptation, while the second has to do with not allowing external opression.
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      Lindsay Newland Bowker 50+

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      Jun 15 2011: good one Baz
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    Vineet Tripathi

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    Jun 3 2011: An advise from me to myself -
    I am not special because I don't have any special speciality that makes me any more special of all the possible special beings around me. But I am different.
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