Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
—William Somerset Maugham
Showing posts with label ability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ability. Show all posts
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Post #2217
To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary, -nature, study, and practice.
—Aristotle
—Aristotle
Monday, May 30, 2016
Post #2086
Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Post #1531
Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
—J.G. Fichte
—J.G. Fichte
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Post #1367
All great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art - by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
—Napoleon Bonaparte
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
Post #1306
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
—Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
—Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Post #1164
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, September 07, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Post #921
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
—Lucretius
—Lucretius
Friday, April 06, 2012
Post #913
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
—Jane Burchill
—Jane Burchill
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Monday, January 02, 2012
Post #819
Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
—James A. Garfield
—James A. Garfield
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Post #717
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
—Miles Davis
—Miles Davis
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Post #707
A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the Walloping Window Blind -
No gale that blew dimayed her crew
Or troubled the Captain's mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow.
And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared,
That he'd been in his bunk below.
—Charles Edward Carryl
Was the Walloping Window Blind -
No gale that blew dimayed her crew
Or troubled the Captain's mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow.
And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared,
That he'd been in his bunk below.
—Charles Edward Carryl
Friday, August 12, 2011
Post #678
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
—Francis Bacon
—Francis Bacon
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Post #431
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good everyday.
—Willie Mays
—Willie Mays
Friday, October 29, 2010
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character