words to remember
(2003 update: I’m cleaning up my web site and blog, and ran into this. I think it’s worth posting here, to help all of us keep some perspective on things as we move towards the end of the season… It’s a piece that first caused me to start thinking how I interacted with people on the lists and which started a chain of self-examination that really changed my attitude about a lot of this, and helped me learn to take myself and my writing a lot less seriously, and enjoy it more)
sent to me in 1996 by one of my list members, those of us who pretend to be experts on stuff should keep it in mind, and those of you being talked at by those of us pretending to be experts should, also…
I thought I’d share this with you. I, and everyone attending, received this
quote 3 years ago at the Detroit Jr. Red Wing banquet, after the J-Wings
achieved 1st place in the OHL, but fell in the championship round, in the
seventh game, in overtime, just missing the Memorial Cup. It has hung on my
wall ever since, I thought you’d appreciate it, too.
“Although the final game was not to be ours, keep this in prospective:
“It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbled or whether 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, and often comes
up short again and again…And who at worst, if he fails, at least he fails
while daring greatly so that his soul shall never be with those cold timid
ones who know neither victory nor defeat.”
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