With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course, is a very common phenomenon. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is. With me, every peep becomes a trumpet solo. | |
— Albert Einstein | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Potential Is A Heavy Burden |
2014 | Fear Not, Weep Not |
2013 | Half Way There |
2012 | Sacrificed Any Lately? |
2011 | The Value Of One’s Character |
2010 | Intervals |
On Being Human | |
Non-predictive Emergence | |
Events | |
Bodily Functions | |
Standing Thoughts | |
Sent Home Is Better Than Fixed | |
Posts Tagged ‘On Fame’
A Trumpet Solo
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, My Journal, On Fame, On Public Perception, Quotes on June 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Are You Waiting?
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged General George S. Patton Jr., My Journal, On Fame, Quotes on November 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Fame never yet found a man who waited to be found. | |
— General George S. Patton, Jr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Traditional Human Sacrifice |
2012 | A Division Of Men |
2011 | Miles, Legends and Superwoman |
Got Tragedy? | |
2010 | My Company For A Prince!! |
On The Shoulders Of Titans | |
Who’s On First?
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, Sports, tagged An Old Priest, George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr., My Journal, On Fame, Philosophical Dictionary, Quotes, Sports on July 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Most of the people who have really counted in my life were not famous. Nobody ever heard of them – except those who knew and loved them. I knew an old priest once. His hair was white, his face shone. I have written my name on thousands and thousands of baseballs in my life. The old priest wrote his name on just a few simple hearts. How I envy him. He was not trying to please a crowd. He was merely trying to please his own immortal soul. So fame never came to him. | |
I am listed as a famous home-run hitter. Yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and wise, I never got to first base. | |
— George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr. | |
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2013 | No Equal Measure |
2012 | A Single Host |
2011 | No Exemptions |
2010 | Memories Of KSA – Inside The Fire |
Bull’s-Eye Next
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, Sports, tagged Babe Ruth, George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr., My Journal, On Fame, On Hero Worship, Quotes, Sports on July 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Fame is a spotlight one minute and a bull’s-eye the next… Why can’t people be sensible and take a man for what he is? If we really understand a man, we do not worship him and we do not abuse him. A famous man always feels like he’s living under false pretenses, that sooner or later he will be found out and hated because he is not perfect. | |
— George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2013 | Change ÷ Time |
2012 | High Anxiety |
2011 | To Be, Do |
2010 | In the Arena… |
Not An Island, Today… |