Showing posts with label doubts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doubts. Show all posts

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Post #2299

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
—F. R. Havergal

Saturday, November 03, 2012

Post #1102

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Monday, June 04, 2012

Post #969

Nothing would be done at all if a man waits until he can do it so well that no one can find fault with it.
—John Newman

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Post #832

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
—Christian Bovee

Thursday, January 05, 2012

Post #822

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
—Tehyi Hsieh

Friday, November 11, 2011

Post #767

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.
—Gilda Radner

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Post #710

A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.
—Herman Melville

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Post #624

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
—William Wrigley Jr.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Post #465

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
—William Wrigley, Jr.

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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