The best advice you've ever gotten?

in TV the live truck is where reporters and photogs openly bitch about shitty assignments, shitty work schedules, shitty pay and all of the jobs they've been applying to in order to get away from the station. After covering a major story where we had several crews on the scene working a long day, one of our older guys said to a new photog "remember, what is said in the live truck stays in the live truck."

Also this from my TV days said to a photog who had a laptop crash on him while he was editing and spent the next 15 minutes yelling about the equipment. "You can spend all the time you want yelling and screaming but that isn't going to get your story edited."

 

Wipe 'till it's white! –– Marine buddy


My first journalism prof always told us, "When your mother tells you she loves you, check it out."

 

Wrap it 'fore you tap it.

Don't sweat the petty stuff; pet the sweaty stuff.

 

Measure twice, cut once.

 

Resist the urge to tell assholes to fuck off.

 

Don't ever do something half-assed.

 

Yeah! Do it full-assed!

 

"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Don't stop; it'll soon be here. It'll be better than before -- yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone."

From the non-song division:

"Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember: others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. Then, you destroy yourself."

 

"Due to" does not mean "because of."

 

My high school baseball coach: "Practice doesn't make perfect ... perfect practice makes perfect."

 

When at a urinal...eyes up or eyes down...no side to side.

"Eyes on the road cowboy."

 

I had a coach who said that.