Wise Sayings...or Not

[tnbill]

Which is why an acetylene torch is also referred to as a heat wrench.

I always heard it was a gas axe or smoke wrench

 

[Billy Collins]

We had a saying in the Air Force.

There's never enough time to do the job right the first time, but there's always enough time to do the job later the right way.

Another factory I used to work at in the paint department had a similar saying when we were being pushed for production numbers - “we ain’t got time to do it right but we got time to do it over” usually meant that the parts with bad paint were about to hit the stripping tank only to be hung back on the paint chain

 

[Stu Padazole]

The difficult I'll do now, the impossible will take a little longer

 

[docw1]

It's easier to fool people, than to convince them they have been fooled!

 

[motornut]

Never let complaints about cost and time lost make you do a job in a fashion you will regret later

 

[Daboo]

If it is worth doing, it's worth doing right.

Chris

 

[ibike2havefun]

If it is worth doing, it's worth doing right.

Chris

There's never time to do it right the first time but there's always time to do it over.

 

[Daboo]

If it is worth doing, it's worth doing right.

Chris

There's never time to do it right the first time but there's always time to do it over.

And yet, as bad as we thought things were in the Air Force and we'd shake our heads...it was far better than what I saw as a civilian.

Chris

 

[ST1100Y]

“If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.
It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken.
Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
<C. Sagan>

 

[docw1]

 

[ST1100Y]

A project motorcycle teaches patience, problem solving and: how to swear creatively...

 

[The Dan]

No brains no headaches no reason for aspirin. (Brother David)

 

[ST1100Y]

Folks never mention the 100 things you did right, instead they just take them for granted...

But that one mistake...

 

[Uncle Phil]

Nobody knows what I do until I don't do it ...

 

[ibike2havefun]

Good enough: if you have to ask, it isn't.

My Dad

 

[docw1]

 

[ST1100Y]

if you’ve never sat on the cold concrete floor of your shop at 2am...

you’ve never really bonded with your motorcycle...

 

[ST Gui]

The difficult I'll do now, the impossible will take a little longer

I've always heard it the other way 'round:
The impossible we can do today. The difficult will take a little longer.

 

[St-Gerard]

We the Unwilling,lead by the unknowing, have been doing so long with so little,We now achieve the impossible with Nothing!
"The unknown Mechanic"

 

[bdalameda]

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy."