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A saying I remember from my childhood was "if at first you don't succeed, try try again." There was no messaging that life was easy, or that you only had to be
by throwaway201103 6y ago
A saying I remember from my childhood was "if at first you don't succeed, try try again."
There was no messaging that life was easy, or that you only had to believe, or only had to try hard. You could do all of that, and fail. Then you reflect on the failure and try again, presumably having learned something.
- edoceo 6y ago""It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life."" - J.L. Picard
- WalterBright 6y agoStar Trek is a hollywood fiction.
- imtringued 6y agoAll quotes are equally worthless so I don't know why you bring that up. People quote people because they want to express the same sentiment but they believe someone else did it better. Not because they believe the quote to be an absolute truth.
- WalterBright 6y agoPicard's "wisdom" does not come from a man experienced in battle and leading men and flying a starship around the galaxy. It comes from a person who has likely commanded nothing more than a typewriter. The real world does not work like the fantasy saccharin world of Star Trek, and wise sayings from it being applicable to the real world would just be happenstance.
- Smaug123 6y ago“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.”