Thought for the Day: If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. — Jesse
To me this passage has been a guiding hand in my life work. I have always realized that in order to succeed, one must build on experience. While we are young we lack fundamental experience, and the only way we can get it, is from personal experience or from the study of the great lives that pioneered before us. They left footsteps, as we choose to term them, into which we can step and continue on from where they left off. The wise person searches for such footsteps of knowledge as short cuts to success. He saves the years that otherwise would have been aimlessly spent in acquiring personal experience. He delves into the lives and findings of his elders and absorbs their wisdom. It is truly said that youth whirls the world but age supplies the balance wheel. Too many young men and women fired with enthusiasm get lost in the whirl and fail to benefit from the balance. Many wonderful lives have been wasted from lack of forethought. By the time they acquire the formula to success too many years have sped past, and the years left to them are too short, or devoid of opportunity. For this reason, I urge my youthful body building enthusiasts to pause a while in their enthusiasms, and spend a little while gleaming benefit from worthwhile examples of men and women who have left their footprints on the sands of time. These footprints are stepping-stones. The world’s progression is built on this same foundation. Your success in life can be more fully blessed by following the same example.
The one who what’s to to be great, must first study greatness.
Humility a strange thing. The minute you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it.
Love thy neighbor and his dog…
Jesse Erving L.S.C.T.
