No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Interpretation
Teamwork values contributions over individualism.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of teamwork and collective effort in achieving success. While individual talents and personalities are valuable, it is the harmony and cooperation of the group that ultimately leads to accomplishment, particularly in collaborative endeavors such as rowing.
In practice
This quote can be used in a team-building workshop to promote cooperation.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.
Submit to the fate of your own free will.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
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