I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too
Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.
Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Damn… that’s better that the muddy pig wrestling one and the pigeon chess one both.
Can’t argue with that
What’s the pigeon one
“Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway.” Shannon L. Alder
Copy/pasted from Goodreads, I’m not actually verifying.
Am I wrong or is that George Carlin?
That was a great read, thank you for that!
That was a great read, thank you!
My father, a union organiser: “You can love the company all you like, but the company will never love you back.”
Stood me in good stead down the years.
Somwhat related quote from my father in law about being a good worker:
“First year, they like you. Second year, they love you. Third year, they just start using you”
That’s only partially true, especially if you think about the definition of ‘company.’
It is completely possible to be in a company that cares about you. Odds are it won’t be a publicly-traded one, though.
Nothing at work is personal, it’s all business. If you believe it’s personal you will get taken advantage by the company.
That’s not too say that there won’t be personal issues at work, just that the company doesn’t care about anything except the business.
In addition, HR isn’t there too protect the employees, they are there to protect the company.
You’ve got to go through a round of redundancies/layoffs to learn this. No amount of telling some freebie-munching programmer will teach them. Source: I was a freebie-munching programmer.
And the acceptance beyond that is “… and that’s ok, it’s not the company’s job to love you, but don’t for a second be fooled into loyalty”.
Piss-poor planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on mine.
If you want to travel fast, go alone; but if you want to travel far, go together.
It’s one of those African proverbs with an unknown origin but their emphasis on community has always been a guiding principle for me.
Not my whole life but ever since I learned it twenty years ago in the army. “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast”. It’s a saying that means to learn things carefully, slowly, and methodically. When you are learning like this speed will follow as a natural progression. So if you learn something slowly and smoothly it will translate into being quick and doing it correctly. I have applied this to all sorts of different things in life and it has never failed me.
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
Jean-Luc Picard
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius
It takes a woman nine months to make a baby, nine women cannot make a baby in a month.
Classic (and likely mangled by myself) computer science quote which I always enjoy encountering in the wild!
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”
― Captain Jean-Luc Picard
That’s really rough to accept, but I’ve come to do so.
I still think we should do our best. Nothing hurts more than losing because we didn’t try hard enough.
Believe those who are seeking the truth, doubt those who find it
Just not everyone who claims to be seeking the truth!
Love this one. Reminds me of the quote “never stop looking for what’s not there.”
Something along the lines of:
‘You’re just an NPC in everyone else’ life, no one really cares about what weird shoes you wear, or whatever. No one’s remembering, don’t worry about it’
Really helps out in the world really, it’s kinda true.
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down… with the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
- Cave Johnson, Portal 2
Maybe not words to live by, but certainly a memorable quote.
“Perfect is the enemy of Good.”
“It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” - Mark Twain
