Too bad school is tomorrow.
Anyway, on to cool things.
I have two quotes that hang on the wall beside my bed. I read them every night before I sleep, and every night before I wake up.
"Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn't work hard" -Tim Notke
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle.
With some more research into quotes I want to hang beside my bed I found the real Aristotle quote. Well, maybe not the real, but the full version;
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle.
So what is excellence?
I think that it is up to each individual to determine what it means to them.
I just thought I would share that with you.
Day 4 comin' on day 5 for the movember stache. She's a beauty already!
I'll post a photo after this post.
Anyway, I hope everyones weekend was just wonderful.
A
2 comments:
It's a good quote, but it should be noted that the actual author is not Aristotle but Will Durant, writing in The Story of Philosophy: here is the passage in Durant's work. (And here is a quotepic on the subject. ;-)
Thank you Samuel! Have you read the book itself?
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