Don't Listen

[Shellon]

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100 People (not) to Listen To

1. Don’t listen to people who … have no idea what the hell they’re talking about.

2. Don’t listen to people who … try to destroy your dreams.

3. Don’t listen to people who … tell you what’s right or wrong.

4. Don’t listen to people who … tell you what to believe.

5. Don’t listen to people who … have nothing else to whine about.

6. Don’t listen to people who … think they know what you need.

7. Don’t listen to people who … say you’re making them look bad.

8. Don’t listen to people who … nastily try to induce insecurity in others.

9. Don’t listen to people who … tell you that you can’t make it in this business.

10. Don’t listen to people who … who’s imagination can’t encompass what it is that you want to do.

11. Don’t listen to people who … claim “their way” is “THE way.”

12. Don’t listen to people who … haven’t done anything themselves.

13. Don’t listen to people who … cannot prove that they have done what you are trying to do.

14. Don’t listen to people who … put a damper on your natural versatility.

15. Don’t listen to people who … give uneducated and bad reviews.

16. Don’t listen to people who … say that studying and learning isn't cool.

17. Don’t listen to people who … aren't qualified to advise you.

18. Don’t listen to people who … don’t listen to you.

19. Don’t listen to people who … don’t listen to themselves.

20. Don’t listen to people who … say, “You can't do that, just get an education!”

21. Don’t listen to people who … say ALL (insert group of people) are like that.

22. Don’t listen to people who … tell you to change what you’re doing.

23. Don’t listen to people who … tell you the market is saturated.

24. Don’t listen to people who … think it’ll never work.

25. Don’t listen to people who … think you’re out of your mind.

26. Don’t listen to people who … say that manga is a useless hobby.

27. Don’t listen to people who … believe there are only two kinds of people in this world.

28. Don’t listen to people who … are telling you, aggressively, that everything is normal.

29. Don’t listen to people who … claim they’re “not” racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever.

(Remember, if you have to tell people you are, then you probably aren’t.)

30. Don’t listen to people who … put you down and try to force you into dead-end roles.

31. Don’t listen to people who … are overwhelmed with jealousy.

32. Don’t listen to people who … tell you that you have to buy a certain kind of suit.

33. Don’t listen to people who … haven’t been right about dang in years.

34. Don’t listen to people who … want to put you down because your passion and enthusiasm scares them.

35. Don’t listen to people who … say you should've bought a bigger one.

36. Don’t listen to people who … think they get paid to make your mind up for you.

37. Don’t listen to people who … state their opinion as if it were fact.

38. Don’t listen to people who … think you're geeky because you ride a recumbent.

39. Don’t listen to people who … use their own personal values to censor other people.

40. Don’t listen to people who … say young people offer no hope for our future.

41. Don’t listen to people who … bare long term grudges on new companies.

42. Don’t listen to people who … say what you do is too strange or too eclectic.

43. Don’t listen to people who … criticize you no matter what you do.

44. Don’t listen to people who … require you to read a library before they're willing to hear your thoughts.

45. Don’t listen to people who … are just after your money.

46. Don’t listen to people who … are just after your time.

47. Don’t listen to people who … are just after your brain (ahem, aliens).

48. Don’t listen to people who … tell you that you won’t make it in this field because it’s too competitive.

49. Don’t listen to people who … who stereotype your school.

50. Don’t listen to people who … try to stress you out.

51. Don’t listen to people who … have nothing but compliments for you.

52. Don’t listen to people who … have nothing but insults for you.

53. Don’t listen to people who … offer you "friendly advice" solely to make you feel insecure.

54. Don’t listen to people who … persuade you to install another piece of software that won't do more than just occupy precious space in your hard drive.

55. Don’t listen to people who … ridicule, demean or spit venom.

56. Don’t listen to people who … tell you not to do something because they don't think you are capable.

57. Don’t listen to people who … tell you what you can and can’t do with/to your body (unless it’s your Doctor)

58. Don’t listen to people who … instruct you which foods you can and can’t eat (unless it’s your Doctor)

59. Don’t listen to people who … say what you're doing will be "too hard."

60. Don’t listen to people who … say the signing of Hakeem Olajuwon was the reason for the Raptors' downfall.

61. Don’t listen to people who … tell you "if you don't go now, you'll never go.”

62. Don’t listen to people who … scream at or insult others for a living.

63. Don’t listen to people who … don’t respect their customers.

64. Don’t listen to people who … seek to silence your conscience.

65. Don’t listen to people who … went somewhere once and think they know everything about it.

66. Don’t listen to people who … dismiss your work as uninteresting or unimportant.

67. Don’t listen to people who … tell you to stop singing so loud.

68. Don’t listen to people who … shovel smoke for a living.

69. Don’t listen to people who … lie.

70. Don’t listen to people who … say something sucks when THEY just don’t like it.

71. Don’t listen to people who … say there’s nothing you can do about it.

72. Don’t listen to people who … don’t think that “Afternoon Delight” is the greatest song ever.

73. Don’t listen to people who … claim that you ONLY have to work smart to be successful.

74. Don’t listen to people who … say it’s just dumb luck.

75. Don’t listen to people who … aren’t listening, they’re just waiting to talk.

76. Don’t listen to people who … answer with the lies they tell themselves.

77. Don’t listen to people who … say you can't make money from fishing.

78. Don’t listen to people who … want to hide in the background.

79. Don’t listen to people who … try to steer your life.

80. Don’t listen to people who … tell you to pick up your rabbit by the ears.

81. Don’t listen to people who … try to pass the buck to others.

82. Don’t listen to people who … tell you that the Brunswick Total Inferno Bowling Ball is too much for you.

83. Don’t listen to people who … have so much anger and hate in them.

84. Don’t listen to people who … say you can get rich by putting a link on their site because of all the traffic they receive.

85. Don’t listen to people who … tell you how cool they are.

86. Don’t listen to people who … never worked in food service before.

87. Don’t listen to people who … say they studied for a weekend and passed.

88. Don’t listen to people whose … sole purpose in life is to stamp out your fire.

89. Don’t listen to people who … say that starving yourself is a good idea as long as it is done in a routine way.

90. Don’t listen to people who … mock you for trying.

91. Don’t listen to people who … can't even get their basic facts straight.

92. Don’t listen to people who … want to lump the law on you again.

93. Don’t listen to people who … tell you that there is nothing wrong with you and that you have no reason to be depressed.

94. Don’t listen to people who … tell you that REAL filmmakers never zoom.

95. Don’t listen to people who … tell you this race is over.

96. Don’t listen to people who … say you’re too young.

97. Don’t listen to people who … baulk at making cheesecake in a pressure cooker.

98. Don’t listen to people who … only offer anecdotes of their own situation.

99. Don’t listen to people who … abuse.

And last but not least...

100. Don’t listen to people who … make absurdly long lists telling you what types of people (not) to listen to. Instead, make your own ☺

[Nottawayfer]

"72. Don’t listen to people who … don’t think that “Afternoon Delight” is the greatest song ever."

That is priceless....

Now I'm going to have that song in my head today.....Thanks Shell!!

[Shellon]

"72. Don’t listen to people who … don’t think that “Afternoon Delight” is the greatest song ever."

That is priceless....

Now I'm going to have that song in my head today.....Thanks Shell!!

[Ron G.]

http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/200...-listen-to.html

26. Don’t listen to people who … say that manga is a useless hobby.

What is "manga"?

[Jim]

Manga Edited October 10, 2008 by Jim

[GarthP2000]

101. Don't listen to people who ... tell you who not to listen to.

[doojable]

101. Don't listen to people who ... tell you who not to listen to.

102. Don't listen to people who... missed #100

100. Don’t listen to people who … make absurdly long lists telling you what types of people (not) to listen to. Instead, make your own ☺

[excathedra]

i only read 100 because it was too long, so did i get the message? :)