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
     

The Hurt Of Anger

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb

Speak when you are angry -- and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
- Cato

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -
until we speak quietly enough so that our words can
be heard as well as our voices.
- Richard M. Nixon

When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson

Further reading: Stop Anger Before It Stops You

The Price of Anger

Burned by Your Own Anger

Anger is a Killing Thing
    

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
     

Speaking while Angry

Speak when you are angry -- and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
- Cato

Laughter drives shouting away.
- Indra Devi

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -
until we speak quietly enough so that our words can
be heard as well as our voices.
- Richard M. Nixon

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
- Publilius Syrus

Further reading: Stop Anger Before It Stops You

Restraint

Frustration

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.

Moderating the Anger Response Through Training