Showing posts with label make it happen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label make it happen. Show all posts

Sunday, March 06, 2022

Post #3114

I can't, does nothing.
I'll try, effects miracles.
I will, accomplishes everything.
—Unknown

Monday, May 28, 2018

Post #2586

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
—Joseph Campbell

Friday, May 25, 2018

Post #2585

All power is from within and therefore under our control.
—Robert Collier

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Post #2583

You create your own universe as you go along.
—Winston Churchill

Friday, September 22, 2017

Post #2410

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
—Samuel Johnson

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Post #2104

Set about whatever you intend to do; the beginning is half the battle.
—Ausonius

Friday, June 17, 2016

Post #2100

He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure.
—Chinese Proverb

Monday, June 06, 2016

Post #2091

Whate'er the work a man performs,
The most effective aid to its completion—
The most prolific source of true success—
Is energy, without despondency.
—Ramāyāna

Monday, December 30, 2013

Post #1446

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go — if there are no doors or windows — he walks through a wall.
—Bernard Malamud

Wednesday, July 31, 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

Monday, October 22, 2012

Post #1091


Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
—Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Post #1075

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and do it.
Andrew Jackson

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Post #1035

Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

Friday, August 10, 2012

Post #1030

There comes a time in a man's life when he has to - if there are no open doors or windows - he walks through a wall.
—Bernard Malamud

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

Monday, May 14, 2012

Post #951

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
—Baltasar Gracian

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Post #933

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
—John Milton

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Post #813

Resolve to perform what you ought.
Perform without fail what you resolve.
—Benjamin Franklin

Friday, October 14, 2011

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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