Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Sunday, November 06, 2022

Post #3149

Experience is a name everyone gives to their mistakes.
—Oscar Wilde

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Post #3146

Experience, that excellent master, has taught me many things.
—Pliny, the Elder

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Post #3124

Dream dreams, then write them aye, but live them first.
—Samuel Eliot Morison

Sunday, August 22, 2021

Post #3086

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
—Vernon Law

Sunday, August 08, 2021

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Post #2577

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
—Voltaire

Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Post #2528

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Post #2427

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
—Publius Syrus

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Post #2073

Human experience, like the stern lights of a ship at sea, too often illuminates only the path we have passed over.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Post #2007

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
—Terence

Friday, October 10, 2014

Post #1660

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
—Patrick Henry

Monday, August 04, 2014

Post #1611

Us old buzzards can spot a dying mouse from 10,000 feet up. Us old buzzards have the sharpest eyes in creation. Right now I'm studying the terrain.
—Senator Seabright Cooley (played by Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent)

Monday, July 28, 2014

Post #1606

I am of opinion that there is no proverb which is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, the mother of all sciences.
—Miguel de Cervantes

Friday, September 13, 2013

Post #1342

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
—H.W. Shaw

Monday, September 02, 2013

Post #1331

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Post #1292

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
—Barry LePatner

Friday, July 05, 2013

Post #1290

The poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
—Ecclesiastes 9:16

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Post #1258

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
—Mark Twain

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Post #1240

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master.
—Thomas Carlyle

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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