Showing posts with label decision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decision. Show all posts

Sunday, April 09, 2023

Post #3171

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
—Amelia Earhart

Sunday, September 13, 2020

Post #3036

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
—Stephen Covey

Friday, May 23, 2014

Post #1555

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
—William Hazlitt

Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Post #1070

In the moment of decision, the best you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Post #945

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
—Vauvenargues

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Post #834

A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer  does not suggest itself.
—Arthur Radford

Monday, November 14, 2011

Post #770

In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
—Ivan Bloch

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Post #749

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
—Bertrand Russell

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Post #748

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.
—Statius

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Post #738

Life is the sum of all your choices.
—Albert Camus

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Post #724

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
—Publilius Syrus

Friday, July 08, 2011

Post #643

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.
—Robert Grant

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Post #568

I learn by going where I have to go.
—Theodore Roethke

Friday, March 18, 2011

Post #532

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Post #522

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
—General George S. Patton

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Post #377

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
—Henry Ford

Friday, October 01, 2010

Post #364

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
—José Ortega y Gasset

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Post #354

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
—Frederick Speakman

Friday, April 23, 2010

Post #203

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
—Henri Frédéric Amiel

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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