Showing posts with label examples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label examples. Show all posts

Sunday, July 03, 2022

Post #3131

Long is the way (to learning) by rules, short and effective by examples.
—Seneca

Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Post #2907

It is well to learn from the misfortunes of others what should be avoided.
—Publius Syrus

Friday, May 11, 2018

Post #2575

Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
—H. W. Shaw

Monday, March 05, 2018

Post #2526

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
—Seneca

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Post #2497

My advice is to consult the lives of other men, as we would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for our own imitation.
—Terence

Friday, January 20, 2017

Post #2255

The young man who thinks he can drink "just a little" because others do, and not be in danger of a drunkard's grave, should look around him to the fearful examples to be found on the streets of every large city and many small ones. Even if you succeed in keeping within the limits of "moderate drinking" your example to those who are unfortunately not so strong-willed should ever be borne in mind. Help the weaker brother. Think not of self alone. Remember the Golden Rule.
—George D. R. Hubbard

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Post #1430

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
—Benjamin Franklin

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Post #766

There is a need for heroism in American life today.
—Agnes Meyer

Monday, October 11, 2010

Post #374

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.
—Albert Schweitzer

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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