If you've been reading this blog, you know that "knowing's not enough" is one of my favorite maxims. I first saw it on US Steel pencils my father would bring home from work. I often use it to end my talks. I encourage people to put to work the ideas I've just shared with them.
Google Quotes is my homepage. Everytime I open my browser, I get a new quote from Google. This morning I saw this one: "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann von Goethe. This was pretty cool. I always like knowing the origin of my favorite quotes.
If you're not familiar with Goethe, he was a late 18th and early 19th century German writer whose works were a primary source of inspiration in music, drama, and poetry during that period. Ralph Waldo Emerson is said to have been inspired by Goethe.
Goethe was and is widely quoted. Here are a few of his more familiar quotes.
- Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.
- You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
- Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
- When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Men err as long as they strive.
- There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
- Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
- We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
That's it for today. Thanks for reading. Log on to my website www.BudBilanich.com for more common sense career and life advice.
I'll see you around the web and at Alex's Lemonade Stand.
Bud
PS What have YOU done for your career today?
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