Maxims for a happy life
Maxims for a happy life.
- Do your talking on the pitch. And leave it on the pitch.
- Don’t be that guy[1].
- Take simple pleasure in pretty things. Stop and smell the coffee. Enjoy the sunset. Admire a wood in autumn.
- Let it go. In the immortal words of the Eastenders script-writing collective, “LEAVE IT, PHIL. HE’S NOT WORTH IT.”
- Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
- Keep an open mind
- Go off the grid — sometimes.
- Walk on the grass. Fuck ’em.
- Find a different way home.
- Write the music you want to hear.
If it gets up your nose
- If it gets up your nose, it’s your problem, not his]]
- If it gets up your nose, he’s probably got a point.
- First question: cui bono?
- You can’t take it with you. Leave it on the pitch, [[Don’t leave anything on the table|not the table}}. (see do your talking on the pitch.)
- Be useful.
- The Devil is the detail.
- Back yourself.
- Perfection is the enemy of good enough.
- It’ll do.
- "Gee, I wish I spent more time in the office," said NO ONE IN HISTORY.
- They’re more scared than you are.
References
- ↑ If you said, “or girl,” you’re being that guy. (and/or girl, as the case may be.)