What's the best advice you've ever been given?
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 1:54 am
I was thinking about this whilst reading a book for the umpteenth time. I thought what I had read was the best advice given to two young boys by a life time career criminal. The book is the 'Potato Factory' by Bryce Courtney.
"If you knows what you're looking for in a crowd, my dear, then you can read it like a book. A crowd be composed of what? "
"folks"..................
.....,"Yes with all sorts o' needs and deeds. Needs and deeds, that be what you have to learn, my dears. If you know what folks needs, you can understand their deeds"......................
then when you see how he stands or sits or walks or uses his hands and his head, and he fits into a pattern, then, when you talks with him you listen with your stomachs, my dears".................."Let your belly button be your most important ear!"...........
The two boys found this very funny. "So what's be your ears on your head? ..................
"These be your listening eyes,................. If they be eyes! Ears what is eyes and eyes what be ears is most important in the discovery o' human nature."
............."Human speech be like pictures, only word pictures. When we speak we paints a word picture what we wants others to see, but we only paint half the picture what be in our heads. The other part, usually the most impotant part, we leaves behind because it be the truth. The true picture. So your ears have to be eyes, so they can see how much o' the real picture what be in the head be contained in the words......................
"If he don't feel good in your stomach, then always trust it, my dears! Bad stomachs and bad people go well together."
So what's the best advice you've ever been given?
"If you knows what you're looking for in a crowd, my dear, then you can read it like a book. A crowd be composed of what? "
"folks"..................
.....,"Yes with all sorts o' needs and deeds. Needs and deeds, that be what you have to learn, my dears. If you know what folks needs, you can understand their deeds"......................
then when you see how he stands or sits or walks or uses his hands and his head, and he fits into a pattern, then, when you talks with him you listen with your stomachs, my dears".................."Let your belly button be your most important ear!"...........
The two boys found this very funny. "So what's be your ears on your head? ..................
"These be your listening eyes,................. If they be eyes! Ears what is eyes and eyes what be ears is most important in the discovery o' human nature."
............."Human speech be like pictures, only word pictures. When we speak we paints a word picture what we wants others to see, but we only paint half the picture what be in our heads. The other part, usually the most impotant part, we leaves behind because it be the truth. The true picture. So your ears have to be eyes, so they can see how much o' the real picture what be in the head be contained in the words......................
"If he don't feel good in your stomach, then always trust it, my dears! Bad stomachs and bad people go well together."
So what's the best advice you've ever been given?