All I Need to Know...

words of wisdom found on the 'net.
  1. All I Need to Know about Life I Learned from My Teddy Bear
  2. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from My Cat
  3. All I Need to Know about Life I Learned from My Dog
  4. All I Need to Know about Life I Learned from Drinking Coffee
  5. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Star Trek
  6. All I need to know I learned from the X-Files
  7. All I need to know, I learned by watching Dr. Who
  8. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Fishing
  9. All I need to know about life I learned from my Guardian Angel
  10. All I need to know about life I learned in the military
  11. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Computers
  12. All I need to know about life I learned from my girlfriends
  13. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from My Son
  14. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

    This next knowledge was provided by Rache Roo. Thanks, Rache!

  15. All I need to know about life I learned from a Cow

    This next knowledge was provided by Patti Ewing. Thanks, Patti!

  16. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From My Bible

  17. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From a Sheep
  18. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From My Teenager
  19. All I Need to Know about Life I Learned From a Snowman
  20. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From Santa
  21. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From the Easter Bunny
  22. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Trees
  23. All I need to know about life I learned from a cow
  24. All I need to know about life I learned from my therapist
  25. Everything I Really Need To Know I Learned From Noah's Ark

    This next knowledge was found because of a question from Mary Wehrman. Thanks, Mary!

  26. All We Really Needed to Know We Learned From Children's Books

    This next knowledge was provided by Melanie Staffeld. Thanks, Melanie!

  27. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From Nature
  28. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From the "Instruction Manual"

  1. All I Need to Know about Life I Learned from My Teddy Bear
    -Lulu Canard

  2. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from My Cat

  3. All I Need to Know about Life I Learned from My Dog

  4. All I Need to Know about Life I Learned from Drinking Coffee

  5. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Star Trek

  6. All I need to know I learned from the X-Files

  7. All I need to know, I learned by watching Dr. Who

  8. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Fishing

  9. All I need to know about life I learned from my Guardian Angel

  10. All I need to know about life I learned in the military
    1. If the enemy is in range, so are you.
    2. Incoming fire has the right of way.
    3. Don't look conspicuous, it draws fire.
    4. There is always a way.
    5. The easy way is always mined.
    6. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.
    7. Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
    8. The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
      1. when you are ready for them
      2. when you are not ready for them
    9. Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at.
    10. If you can't remember, then the claymore is pointed at you.
    11. The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack.
    12. A "sucking chest wound" is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
    13. If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.
    14. Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you.
    15. Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing.
    16. Make it tough enough for the enemy to get in and you won't be able to get out.
    17. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.
    18. If you're short of everything but the enemy, you're in a combat zone.
    19. When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy.
    20. Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.
    21. If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.

  11. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Computers

  12. All I need to know about life I learned from my girlfriends

  13. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from My Son

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    * -- provided by Danielle. Thanks!

  14. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
    1. Share everything.
    2. Play fair.
    3. Don't hit people.
    4. Put things back where you found them.
    5. Clean up your own mess.
    6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
    7. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
    8. Wash your hands before you eat.
    9. Flush.
    10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
    11. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
    12. Take a nap every afternoon.
    13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
    14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
    15. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup--they all die. So do we.
    16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--LOOK.

    The following knowledge was provided by Rache Roo. Thanks, Rache!

  15. All I need to know about life I learned from a Cow

    The following knowledge was provided by Patti Ewing. Thanks, Patti!

  16. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From My Bible

  17. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From a Sheep

  18. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From My Teenager

  19. All I Need to Know about Life I Learned From a Snowman

  20. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From Santa

  21. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From the Easter Bunny

  22. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From Trees

  23. All I need to know about life I learned from a cow

  24. All I need to know about life I learned from my therapist

  25. Everything I Really Need To Know I Learned From Noah's Ark

    This next knowledge was found because of a question from Mary Wehrman. Thanks, Mary!
    Some corrections were provided by Charles Brozina. Thanks, Charles!

  26. All We Really Needed to Know We Learned From Children's Books

    (Seen in the 1998 movie "You've Got Mail!", this originally was a poster published by Koen Book Distributors in 1997.)

    1. Do something to make the world more beautiful.
        (Miss Rumphius)
    2. Clean up the house when you're through playing.
        (Cat in the Hat)
    3. You don't have to fight if you don't want to.
        (The Story of Ferdinand the Bull)
    4. We're all meant to need each other.
        (Missing May)
    5. Stay golden.
        (The Outsiders)
    6. If you think you can, you can.
        (The Little Engine That Could)
    7. Best friends are terrific!
        (Charlotte's Web)
    8. Don't leave home without your purple crayon!
        (Harold and the Purple Crayon)
    9. Eat a balanced meal every day.
        (Bread and Jam for Frances)
    10. There's no place like home.
        (The Wizard of Oz)
    11. Never eat someone's else's vegetables.
        (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
    12. It doesn't matter how small you are.
        (The Borrowers)
    13. It doesn't matter how big you are.
        (The BFG)
    14. Don't cross the street without your mother!
        (Make Way for Ducklings)
    15. Never eat the last piece of the puzzle!
        (Curious George Goes to the Hospital)
    16. Ole Golly is right. Sometimes you have to lie.
        (Harriet the Spy)
    17. Be glad you live in a world where there are Octobers.
        (Anne of Green Gables)
    18. Expect all the summers to be magic ones.
        (Gone Away Lake)

    This next knowledge was provided by Melanie Staffeld. Thanks, Melanie!

  27. All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From Nature

    1. The smallest seeds can produce the mightiest trees
    2. Running away to fight another day isn't cowardice - it's good survival strategy
    3. Even the ugliest caterpillars produce beautiful butterflies
    4. Strength doesn't equal intelligence
    5. Curling up in your shell doesn't solve the problem
    6. Furs and skins look better on animals
    7. Don't be afraid to stand your ground
    8. Know when to crow and know when to keep quiet
    9. When all else fails, eat a few flowers
    10. Don't be afraid to travel
    11. Playing is the best way to learn
    12. Playing in a field of wildflowers is fun
    13. Take time to admire the scenery
    14. Every day brings something new
    15. Never underestimate the power of a sunrise
    16. Animals have teeth and claws and plants have thorns for a reason
    17. Night has its own beauty
    18. From the smallest to the largest, we are all a part of the Earth

  28. All I Need To Know About Life I Learned From the "Instruction Manual"

    1. Sometimes not all the parts are there
    2. If at first you don't succeed, reread the "tools needed" page
    3. If you still don't succeed, just turn to page two
    4. Duct tape is your friend
    5. Sometimes you just have to toss the instruction manual out the window
    6. Just remember, diagrams and words don't always go together
    7. You can never have too much glue
    8. All problems can be solved with a hammer, some nails and some duct tape
    9. All instruction manuals look better when they have color pictures
    10. Sometimes following the pictures makes more sense than following the written instructions
    11. Keep all receipts
    12. Cheap good, cheap bad
    13. If the project doesn't look like the picture, put a plant on top of it
    14. If the shelves are a little crooked, put it against the wall
    15. If the shelves are really crooked, the floor's not level
    16. A little paint and no one will ever see the nail holes
    17. A little decorative touch will hide any construction flaws
    18. You will always be short one peg - so improvise!
    19. You can build anything with a hammer, a Phillips screwdriver, a couple of screws, some paint and a little imagination.
    20. The furniture you build is never ugly
    21. When all else fails, take it apart and start over
    22. "Pre-drilled holes" means you're going to need to do some serious work
    23. "Pre-set nail holes" aren't pre-set
    24. The pieces are always heavier once they're out of the box
    25. "Easy to install paneling" isn't easily installed
    26. Nails will solve any construction problem
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