If at first you don't succeed...

 ... learn to live with failure!  Kidding.  Try until you get it right - or at least as well as you can do it.

"Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to. Fear keeps pace with hope … both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fukushima Daiichi water release

 "When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it.  If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger.

Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them.

Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs, in which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion.

Is that so hard?" - Marcus Aurelius

First nickel plating project

"I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential for a scientist." - Luis Alvarez

Don't get your health advice from... Doctors!

 "How soon time will cover all things." - Marcus Aurelius

Nickel Plating amateur hour

 "All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers.

For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall.

Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must be the life of those who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep.

By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Tractor fixin' (Updated)

 "When someone is properly grounded in life, they need not look outside themselves for approval." - Epictetus

Fires, smoke, bead blasting and nickel plate

 "The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering." - Carl Jung

Dr. Viktor Frankl - A modern Stoic

 "They called those mad who did not suffer from the general madness." - Madame Roland

Military Conscription - "The Draft"

 "What society does to its children, so will its children do to society." Marcus Tullius Cicero

Power Augmentation in combined cycle power plants

"There is nothing so costly as bargains." - Margaret Oliphant

USS Gudgeon (SS 567)

  "It is easy to rule using incompetent people, but it's much more difficult to have a functional society with incompetent people in charge.  It all depends on what your priorities are.  The West is run by incompetent, vain, narcissistic, entitled, greedy, deviant clowns.  A society pervaded by sociopaths from top to bottom is doomed to implode" - Unknown commenter