Curtis Brown (Of Brown, Robillard & Wilson) once told my dad that "Freddy, you had better like surveying better than sex, or you will never make it!"
Doug Robbins, who was once the Montgomery County Surveyor told me "Survey all the tie line you need to, finish your job, and NEVER change your mind." (This was in reference to the liability side of surveying) His point, was that the court would consider your set of reasoning, for what you did, and even if they did not agree, they would also consider your standard of care, before holding you liable.
Ted Cannell, once told me, "Find out what the ___ is going on, before you publish anything, either on paper, or with words"
That last one can be hard to do!
OK, what's yours?
Nate
You don't have to be a good surveyor if you find all the corners.
I won't be out researched.
Can you defend that?
What the hell were you thinking when you came up with that answer?
Did you look and dig there?
There are so many more that I can't remember, but I find myself saying these now to my chiefs. They are still valid now like they were then.
"Never survey any more accurately than you need to".
- Roy Caldwell
My first land surveyor boss in the Ozarks told me..to paraphrase..
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."
I see on the internet that it is attributed to John Wooden. I am a big John Wooden fan.
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
also some favoite attibuted to Wooden and I have seen them posted here before.
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts
"Get the miles right before you worry about the feet"
"If you're not finding any pins, you're either not digging deep enough...or you're looking in the wrong place."
And my favorite:
"You never really finish a job, you just run out of money."
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> "You never really finish a job, you just run out of money."
wow. That is so true!
You ain’t building a bridge.
Better a gap than an overlap.
One of a surveyor’s jobs is to understand error, where it comes from and how to eliminate it.
You can measure as accurately as you want, but if you are not in the right place, it doesn’t matter.
If you don’t smell Chinese food, you have not dug deep enough.
Don't worry about your mistakes you find, worry about the ones you don't find.
"It can look right and be wrong, but it can't look wrong and be right."
"If the bearing and distance helped me find the monument then they are good."
Bud Clymer, one of the first party chiefs I worked under.. Said during the retracement survey of the Percy Priest Reservoir outside Nashville, TN..
You will make mistakes at some point. Everyone does. The key is to FIND your mistakes.
Good god you have no idea what you're doing!!
A. Young
"Only Wh*res and carpenters work in inches!"
"It's not a mistake 'till it goes out the door."
"Should be duck soup."
"Get over here and kill this rattlesnake NOW!, dammit!"
Have a great week! B-)
Don't tell me about the birth, just show me the baby.
PJC:"It never rains on surveyors."
Me:"But Dad, it's raining on me right now."
PJC:"Then you're not much of a surveyor, are you?"
A fore site is like a fore skin. It comes off.