Many parents try so hard to boost ‘self-esteem’ that they forget where it comes from. We feel good about ourselves when we’re effective in the world. Help your son acquire the skills and knowledge he needs to succeed ….
An inflated sense of self-worth without underlying abilities is useless, if not dangerous.
Tag: salvation
Excellent quality is not enough. Also required is suitability. In pursuit of wrong purposes, excellence is wrong.
Employing gas spectroscopy is overkill when a simple microscope will accomplish the task. Using a simulation model to determine the optimal warehouse network may be excellent management science, but you’ll realize it’s ridiculous if you just stop to think. Common sense will suggest that you’ll need a warehouse in the New York metropolitan area, probably one between Washington and Philadelphia, …. How much scientific accuracy do you need?
Your imagination can tell you in a moment a great deal more than scientific excellence would have told you at great expense and pretension in a year ….
… the explanations of the superior performance that we commonly get from the most successful practitioners of capitalist enterprise, though perhaps quite accurate in themselves, are seldom more than confessions of particular experiences, offering no comparison with the experiences of others and devoid of serious analytical content.
What they lack, moreover, in generality, they often compensate with pomposity.
— Theodore Levitt
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.
— New Living Translation
I think I must have one of those faces you can’t help believing.
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins).
— Alfred Hitchcock, director
For God speaks again and again, though people do not recognize it.
— New Living Translation