If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.