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10/09/2002 07:52:39 AM · #1 |
I found this quote in an article in PhotoSIG. It's a little something to think about especially if your shots have been getting slammed. This is not directed at anyone, rather published here for everyone to read and enjoy. It is from our good friend, Teddy Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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10/09/2002 08:20:20 AM · #2 |
:)
...from Theodore Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech... don't remember the date but it was somewhere around 1909 or 1910... :)
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10/09/2002 09:36:18 AM · #3 |
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10/09/2002 09:37:20 AM · #4 |
Thank you, that is a great quote, and an inspiring one.
Here are two more in the same vein, though not as eloquent:
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. -- Jean De La Bruyere
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10/09/2002 10:01:14 AM · #5 |
those are both excellent quotes, and perfect for sending to my evil boss!
THANKS!!! :) :) :) |
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10/09/2002 11:34:59 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by MarkRob:
I found this quote in an article in PhotoSIG. It's a little something to think about especially if your shots have been getting slammed. This is not directed at anyone, rather published here for everyone to read and enjoy. It is from our good friend, Teddy Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Mark, thanks for posting that! How excellent and worthy to be pondered again and again.
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