Maxims for a happy life

Maxims for a happy life.

• Do your talking on the pitch.
• Don’t be that guy.
• 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

• [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, 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.