Favorite sayings

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What are some of your favorite sayings, cliches....

Just one I thought of or heard recently...I'm ..."like jello...hard to nail down".

Specializes in ORTHO, PCU, ED.

"That nurse runs around here like a cat in a room full o' rockers."

Specializes in Early Intervention, Nsg. Education.

There's a difference between "learning" and "being taught." One requires you to depend on yourself, and the other requires you to depend on other people. Are you prepared to spend the rest of your life looking for dependable people?

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgement.

And the classic Dr. Seuss quote:

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Aaaaaand, just because I'm a Mom to 17 and 18 year old kids...

"Who owns the problem?"

And...

"You knew the rules before you broke them. Go ahead and get mad at me. I'm your Mom, not your friend. I have plenty of grown-up friends, I don't need any teenage friends."

My Mom is looking down at me, watching her words come out of my mouth, and is definitely laughing her butt off! [emoji33]

The Universe tends to unfold as it should.

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Its usually IS my monkeys or my circus ;)

My fav at the moment

"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life thinking its a failure"

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

shozoly when I'm frustrated instead of uttering a profanity

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

I like this one!

Specializes in Registered Nurse.
There's a difference between "learning" and "being taught." One requires you to depend on yourself, and the other requires you to depend on other people. Are you prepared to spend the rest of your life looking for dependable people?

I like that one. Makes you think.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

such a business

none of your beeswax

If you don't like what you see then turn around

What you say and and do doesn't concern me, so it won't bother me either.

[]The only disability in life is a "BAD ATTITUDE" not the presence of disease.

I cannot like this enough! I'm trying to memorize it, (I'm old, lucky if I can remember what I had for dinner).

Specializes in Registered Nurse.

Brownbook,

I like to say, "My memory is a sieve"

There is nothing more potent than a lethal dose of patience, kindness and understanding.:yes:

Keep 'em alive until seven-o-five.

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