What is garbage to some people can be diamonds to others?
By thefortunes
@thefortunes (2367)
Netherlands
September 9, 2007 8:04pm CST
Many of the people I have relationship with, be it friends, or colleagues, or family use sayings such as: "This is just like throwing pearls to the pigs" - when you speak with people who don't even understand what you are trying to convey to them. And: "What is garbage to some people can be diamonds for others". Do you use sayings as the once above, or do you try doing without the use of cliches?
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3 responses
@Perspectives (7131)
• Canada
10 Sep 07
I agree with you that all too many people throw out quotes like this without ever really considering their impact. It does get tiresome...and to me it is right up there with the global statements that...EVERYONE...ALWAYS...says or does this or that. Come on folks..not EVERYONE...ALWAYS...does or says anything all the time.
So do I use them? Uh..once in a long while. I do use less popular quotations in my magazine articles and to head up a topic on my Blog...but I do tend to stay away from redundant, over-worked cliché's like those you presented here.
@thefortunes (2367)
• Netherlands
10 Sep 07
Hi Perspectives, and thank you for your responce in this discussion :) And you gave a very good answer to my question ;)
if only people would use more of the words they know, the conversations will be so much more interesting, and life would be less boring :) Cliches are for tired people, and for the once that are tired of thinking, or tired of reading, or maybe simply tired of being interesting anymore :)
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@Perspectives (7131)
• Canada
13 Sep 07
Thank you for the best response on this one. We are so on the same page here. My Mom raised with a love of words and how they are used. Whenever I would bump into one that I hadn't heard before I ask her what it was. She gently suggested I look it up in the dictionary because that way I'd remember it. That wonderful early life habit has served me well..especially in my work as a communicator of idea. There are so many unique and wonderful ways to use words as metaphors...we don't need to keep re-treading the same pedestrian things over, and over and over.
Good post...great to remind us that original thinkers have changed the world!
Cheers,
Raia
@thefortunes (2367)
• Netherlands
14 Sep 07
Thanks a LOT Raia, and you've had a great upbringing due to your mum my friend :) and thanks for your great responce again :)
@whyaskq (7523)
• Singapore
10 Sep 07
Are the above cliches? I know not. Personally, I do not use such sayings as this is the first time I come across such especially the title of your topic. I have heard about throwing pearls to pigs and I understand it to be a rather insulting phrase to use. So I do not use it. What is the point?
@thefortunes (2367)
• Netherlands
10 Sep 07
Hi Whyaskq, and thank you for responding in this discussion :) As to coming across the title of my topic's quotation, I guess it is because of the type of web sites that you visit often. This quote has been used in the last month by at least 10 marketing blogs, and this is why I started the discussion :) There are many sites for quotations and sayings, and if the webmasters, or writers would bother to use one of these, they will come across more of the kind they need, instead of using one and the same :)
@michaeldadona (5684)
• Malaysia
10 Sep 07
For this one;
"This is just like throwing pearls to the pigs"
I would rather use:"Giving flower to monkey".
And for the next, I'm very familiarize using it;
"What is garbage to some people can be diamonds for others".
