Showing posts with label judgement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label judgement. Show all posts

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Post #3169

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement.
—Will Rogers

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Post #2588

Judging is balancing an account, and determining on which side the odds lie.
—John Locke

Monday, December 07, 2015

Post #1961

The most necessary talent in a man of conversation, which is what we ordinarily intend by a fine gentleman, is a good judgment. He that has this in perfection is master of his companion, without letting him see it; and has the same advantage over men of any other qualifications whatsoever, as one that can see would have over a blind man of ten times his strength.
—Sir Richard Steele

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Post #1932

'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
—Alexander Pope

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Post #1678

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
—Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Monday, August 05, 2013

Post #1311

Experience does not err; it is only your judgement that errs in expecting from her what is not in her power.
—Leonardo da Vinci

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Post #1292

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

Friday, May 17, 2013

Post #1256

Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during human life out of which the first one suffers the worst beating.
—AndrĂ© Breton

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Post #1219


To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
—Theodore Roosevelt

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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