Showing posts with label value. Show all posts
Showing posts with label value. Show all posts

Thursday, December 01, 2016

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Post #2107

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
—Omar Khayyām

Thursday, October 02, 2014

Post #1654

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Post #1238

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
—Ezra Pound

Friday, December 07, 2012

Post #1131

When the well's run dry, we know the worth of water.
—Benjamin Franklin

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Post #1022

Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
—Albert Einstein

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Post #746

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
—Publilius Syrus

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Post #527

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
—Arthur Miller

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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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied...

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