Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
Walter LippmannRead
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Honesty comes naturally when one is deeply engaged in creative work.
Walter Lippmann's quote suggests that when individuals are passionately involved in their creative endeavors, their intrinsic sense of honesty and integrity will naturally manifest. It emphasizes that true craftsmanship and dedication to a purpose cultivate a sincere approach to one's work, eliminating the need for external reminders about honesty.
Themes
HonestyCreativityWorkmanshipPurposeIntegrity
In practice
Example use cases
During a team meeting on project ethics, this quote can inspire members to focus on the importance of integrity in creative work.
More from Walter Lippmann
All quotes βThe simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
Walter LippmannRead
The news and the truth are not the same thing.
Walter LippmannRead
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
Walter LippmannRead
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Walter LippmannRead
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter LippmannRead
Similar quotes
The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.
Julia CameronRead
I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God'. I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.
Dwight L. MoodyRead
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Andre GideRead
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
Oswald ChambersRead
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler YeatsRead
It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
Alan MooreRead