December 31, 2007 1:55 PM
Avoiding criticism - and handling it when it comes
Wow.
Via Randy Alcorn's blog Eternal Perspectives today - in which he grapples with the necessity to moderate comments to keep discussions from being hijacked - I discovered a man who enjoyed a brilliant way with words: Elbert Hubbard. (Found him simply by googling the quote above - and want to remind everyone that this is an easy way to make sure authors get proper attribution).
At Wikipedia, I found these other Hubbard quotes:
* Responsibility is the price of freedom.
* Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
* The Supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
* An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
* Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
* A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
* Life is just one damned thing after another.
* Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
* Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
* The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
* One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
* The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
* We preserve our sanity only as we forget self in service.
* You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.
Some good ones there - doncha think?
And Randy's post Comments on the comments, in which he deals with the surprisingly combative aftermath of an innocent post is interesting for any blogger who's had to wrestle with the question of moderating comments.
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Happy New Years Barbara & family!!
Posted by: Tracy | January 1, 2008 9:43 AM
