The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
- Socrates
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
- C. S. Lewis
Persist: Small attempts repeated, will complete any undertaking.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Hippocrates was a physician who made this the opening statement in a medical text. The lines which follow:
"The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate."
Thus in plainer language "it takes a long time to acquire and perfect one's expertise (in, say, medicine) and one has but a short time in which to do it".[3]
It can be interpreted as "art lasts forever, but artists die and are forgotten"[3]
(in this use sometimes rendered in the Greek order as "Life is short, Art eternal"),
but most commonly it refers to:
how time limits our accomplishments in life
Persist: Small attempts repeated, will complete any undertaking.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
- Francis Bacon, 1625
The person who studies a problem from every angle and defines the risks,
aims and possibilities correctly before he starts is more than halfway
to his goal.
- Gerald Loeb
Don't Wait:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress
– Charles F. Kettering
- Gerald Loeb
Here is an exercise to show how using quotes contains meaning in fewer words:
“The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.”
“The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.”
― Hippocrates (c. 460–370 B.C.), Greek physician. Aphorisms, aph 1.
Sometimes translated into Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis, of the art of healing.
Sometimes translated into Latin as Ars longa, vita brevis, of the art of healing.
Interpretation
The most common and significant caveat made regarding the saying is that "art" (Latin: ars, translating Ancient Greek: τέχνη (techne)) originally meant "technique, craft" (as in The Art of War), not "fine art".Hippocrates was a physician who made this the opening statement in a medical text. The lines which follow:
"The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate."
Thus in plainer language "it takes a long time to acquire and perfect one's expertise (in, say, medicine) and one has but a short time in which to do it".[3]
It can be interpreted as "art lasts forever, but artists die and are forgotten"[3]
(in this use sometimes rendered in the Greek order as "Life is short, Art eternal"),
but most commonly it refers to:
how time limits our accomplishments in life
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