It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life.
First thought that came to me as well. Thank You Captain Picard…
This could have also been said by any speedrunner in a game with even a single RNG event.
In my language it goes : “Alone you go faster, together you go further”.
“It’s not your fault, but it is your problem.”
I honestly love and repeat this line way too much
Just because you weren’t the cause doesn’t mean it isn’t something you need to worry about/fix. I learned this one from my high school English teacher when a student was late and tried to get out of it by blaming traffic lol. The traffic was not their fault, but it ended up being their problem.
There’s a variation of this that I like better: “It’s not your fault but it is your responsibility.”
Framing it this way shifts the tone from passive to active; you have a problem, but you take responsibility. It also helps the responsible party set themself up for correcting the behavior in the future. Saying you’re late because of traffic and accepting the consequences is fine, but recognizing that you need to leave earlier to accommodate traffic is better.
I had a teacher who would ask for an explanation, not an excuse. If the explanation started to place blame on someone or something else, he’d just shake his head and say “no excuses.”
“It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life.”
-Captain Jean-Luc Picard
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
He may or may not have known it, but he was paraphrasing a fundamental rule of the Baha’i Faith.
I’m not sure the baha’i faith knew they were quoting Douglas Adams.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Just because two sides are fighting doesn’t mean one side is good (something along this line)
… I don’t think it is that profound, but I think about it a lot
I read it as meaning:
- “Just because two sides are fighting doesn’t mean you have to pick one”.
You can’t help people that don’t want help.
Goes for people who are going through mental/physical health problems or substance abuse issues. If they don’t want help you have to accept that and be there for them when they do.
I’ve always heard this as “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink”
Housing can’t be both affordable and a good investment.
Variation of this: Poor people rent, that’s how they stay poor.
Hurt people hurt people.
We thought of life by analogy was a journey, was a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end. And the thing was to get to that end.
Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead.
But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played
– Alan Watts
If the penalty for breaking a law is a fine, that law only exists for poor people.
From “The Good Place”: If soulmates do exist, they’re not found. They’re made.
I believe Seth MacFarlane said something similar in “The Orville”.
A great reminder from two great shows.
“Know your worth.”
I’ve struggled with self-worth my whole life and I’m finally taking a stand for myself both in my professional and personal life. It feels great tbh.
The expression is usually meant to limit speech and ambition.
I don’t take it that way at all.
I’ve never heard it stated in that manner either, only as a way to make it clear that one should stand up for themselves.
“Know your PLACE” absolutely has the negative connotation though.
Seriously though:
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
