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- Life is not fair. Get used to it
- The world won't care about your self-esteem as much as your school does.
The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about
yourself.
- You will NOT make $80,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be
a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
- If you think your teacher is rough, wait till you get a boss. He
doesn't have tenure.
- Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a
different word for burger-flipping. They called it "opportunity."
- If you screw up, it's not your parents' fault. So don't whine about
your mistakes; learn from them.
- Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.
They got that way paying YOUR bills, cleaning YOUR room and listening to you
tell how idealistic you are. So before you save the rain forest from the
blood-sucking parasites of your parents' generation, try de-lousing the
closet in your own room.
- Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life hasn't.
In some schools, they've abolished failing grades. They'll give you as many
times as you want for the right answer. This, of course, bears no
resemblance to anything in real life.
- Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off. And
very few employers are interested in helping you "find yourself", do that on
your own time.
- Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to
leave the coffee shops and go to jobs.
- Be nice to nerds; chances are you'll end up working for one.
- Smoking does not make you look "cool"; it makes you look moronic.
Ditto for purple hair and pierced body parts.
- Living fast and dying young is romantic - only until you see one of
your peers at room temperature.
- GET UP WHEN YOU FALL DOWN. Michael Jordan has missed the basket 9,000
times. He has lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, Michael Jordan has
been trusted to take the game-winning shot - and missed. Jordan says, "Over
and over and over again, I have failed. And that is why I succeed."
Most people do this every day, but just don't get paid for it.
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