Best (non-standard) advice you ever got?

For example, here are some of my favorites:

1) Never let someone guess your height based on your photos

2) When covering a tragedy, don’t complain about anything. Don’t complain about how cold/hot you are, hungry/thirsty/tired, nothing. Someone might hear, feel the same way *and* might have just lost everything.

3) my favorite of all-time from a legendary editor who was reviewing my work at a workshop: “You’re a nice midwestern boy, with nice midwestern values. They have their space, you have theirs. Get over it”