Trust Measurement

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

If stock market experts were so expert,
they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
- Norman Ralph Augustine

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper (United States Navy rear admiral and a pioneer of computer programming)

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Laurence J. Peter

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
- Tom Hopkins

Further reading: Trust Reason

Use Common Sense

Take Charge of Your Life

Authority Does Not Define Morality

Exercise Your Free Will
     

Accurate Measurement

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

If stock market experts were so expert,
they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
- Norman Ralph Augustine

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper (United States Navy rear admiral and a pioneer of computer programming)

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Laurence J. Peter

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
- Tom Hopkins

Further reading: Trust Reason

Use Common Sense

Take Charge of Your Life

Authority Does Not Define Morality

Exercise Your Free Will
     

Not All "Experts" Are

No statement should be believed [solely] because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper (United States Navy rear admiral and a pioneer of computer programming)

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Laurence J. Peter

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Further reading: Trust Reason

Use Common Sense

Take Charge of Your Life

Authority Does Not Define Morality

Exercise Your Free Will
     

Beyond Sameness

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it
a superficial appearance of being right.
- Thomas Paine,
[Likewise, A long habit of not thinking a thing right gives it
a superficial appearance of being wrong.]

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac

What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Never quit" is one of those very common expressions that contains only one aspect of an important larger truth. Persistence is a virtue only when the goal is both desirable and attainable. There is no dishonor in redirecting your energies to more worthy or achievable goals.

Sadly, there is comfort in what we find familiar,
even when it causes us pain and suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Be Too Sure

What You've Always Done

The Good Old Ways

Your Whole Toolkit
    

Habit vs. Thinking

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it
a superficial appearance of being right.
- Thomas Paine,
[Likewise, A long habit of not thinking a thing right gives it
a superficial appearance of being wrong.]

A habit is something you can do without thinking -
which is why most of us have so many of them.
- Frank Howard Clark

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel

What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Sadly, there is comfort in what we find familiar,
even when it causes us pain and suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Don't Be Too Sure

What You've Always Done

The Good Old Ways

Your Whole Toolkit
    

Running in Circles

Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real obstacles don't take you in circles.
They can be overcome.
Invented ones are like a maze.
- Barbara Sher

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Eight Rules for Living Your Greatest Life

Three Rules of Life

Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams

Be Bold

Breakthrough

The Edge

Challenge Yourself