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?
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.
There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.
Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.