What is your understanding of this quote?
By redhotpogo
@redhotpogo (4401)
United States
June 10, 2010 4:42am CST
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunities"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
personally I think it sounds a bit snobbish, but I'll wait for your interpretations. Maybe I've misread it.
2 responses
@demetermaid (38)
• United States
10 Jun 10
How does that sound snobbish to you, redhot?
See, I take it to mean that if you are truly great, smart, gifted, driven - whichever word you choose to describe it - you don't wait around for an opportunity to arise to make something of yourself. Instead, you find your own way and create your own opportunities.
I don't a need a reason, or someone else's situation to make good out of my life. All the greatness, I brought myself.
;-)
@redhotpogo (4401)
• United States
12 Jun 10
see I look at it like this:
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunities"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When people say a great man they are usually referring to someone of importance; someone of influence. How do you get to that position? Money. Now someone who has money has opportunities that the less fortunate person doesn't. So its like saying a poor person will never be great, because all that they do is complain. Its the same as telling a poor guy to get a job, like its just their laziness that's keeping them where they are at.
@ifa225 (14364)
• Indonesia
8 Jul 10
i do not know if u misread it. i just read by your discussion right now.well it hink it is true. great man make opportunity, not want it.
