Words I like:
Smile, discombobulate, booty, savant, articulate, specificity, collaborate, extrapolate, individualize, streamline, home, lost, forest, seductive
Words I dislike:
Disappoint, discharge, owe, racist, malignant, nub, cute, milky, govern, judge, terminate, tutor, now, never
Words that are overused:
Awesome, like, love, passion, brilliant, genius, gentrification, maybe, whatever, extreme, some, spiritual
Words that aren’t used enough:
Thanks, hi, no
12/22/07
12/15/07
Daring Greatly
Not merely to be an artist but to live daring greatly.
To have faith in something and constantly try to prove its fallicies. To stake your reputation on a risk that nobody else sees. To dare greatness in something trivial. To risk insignificance for a moment of laughter. To stare irrelevance in the face because noone else will. To fail for the sake of failing. To walk when everyone else is running. To laugh and cry in the same breath.
To devote your life to something that is constantly misunderstood and to not apologize for it.
"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 them 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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".
Theodore Roosevelt
"The Man In The Arena" Speech at the Sorbonne Paris, France April 23, 1910
To have faith in something and constantly try to prove its fallicies. To stake your reputation on a risk that nobody else sees. To dare greatness in something trivial. To risk insignificance for a moment of laughter. To stare irrelevance in the face because noone else will. To fail for the sake of failing. To walk when everyone else is running. To laugh and cry in the same breath.
To devote your life to something that is constantly misunderstood and to not apologize for it.
"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 them 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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in 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 fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".
Theodore Roosevelt
"The Man In The Arena" Speech at the Sorbonne Paris, France April 23, 1910
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