He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
Interpretation
A truly wise man carefully considers potential outcomes but acts decisively when the time comes.
This quote emphasizes the balance between careful planning and decisive action. It suggests that a wise person does not shy away from contemplating possible challenges and risks but remains courageous and bold when it is time to act, thereby highlighting the importance of both forethought and courage in successful decision-making.
In practice
During a motivational speech to young entrepreneurs.
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
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