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?
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give us an idea of the infinite. And that blood is red so that murder will be more easily detected and criminals will be brought to justice. Yes, and I believe that I shall live forever, but I shall live without reason.
Je est un autre. (I is someone else).
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