Comment by GodelNumbering
14 hours ago
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life." - Jean-Luc Picard
Good startup advice. Good life advice.
14 hours ago
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life." - Jean-Luc Picard
Good startup advice. Good life advice.
I'm living by these words.
So many great lessons I have heard from him, truly a life model.
"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!"
This is becoming a speech
You're the captain sir, you're entitled
Hmmm, I'm entitied to ramble on about something everyone knows
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Make make make make it so
He just kept talking in one long, incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic.
Dark Materia - Picard Song.mp3
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oooh that just took me back. Remember blasting this in a friends car on a road-trip.
It's meme-y, but if you know, you know. Whenever I see or even watch the line, I instantly hear the Picard Song.
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
Well now I just want The Picard Song ... ah, here it is. https://archive.org/details/darkmateria_picard
Idk if I like that line. If you made no mistakes then you chalk-up your loss to bad luck and are not really demotivated so much. You know you did your best nothing to regret so you can easily keep going. When you keep making mistakes and losing because of those it becomes far more demotivating and that's WAY more likely a scenario than the other.
"I've seen everything" - Patrick Stewart.
Good life advice as well
Amazing he managed to see the documentary so long before it was filmed
Yes, that's how it works in science fiction show for teenagers from the 60s.
It's painfully hard to compare that to the real world.
But at least, sci fi viewers can graduate to more serious shows with increasingly complex narratives (B5, bsg, I hear good things about the expense, etc...) then discover the really dystopian shit when they realize they live in it - or decide to become tech entrepreneur to get rich building the dystopia themselves.
But you can't blame the storytellers from trying to tell a better story than the news...
May the kid inside you, who once believed in the "good folks", rear up his metaphorical heads once in a while.
There's no difference with the "real" world.
It's like you never read the quote, and if you read it you did not understand it.
We live our lives to the best of our abilities and sometimes things go very bad for us. What is unreal about it?
Let me guess: you definitely don't consider the possibility of trying your best to be realistic.
Do you disagree that the advice is true? Your comment is not relevant to the quote.
"Why has everything become a something or a whatever?"
- Patrick Stewart breaking character
I say this all the time since I got it from the show. RIP The GOAT.
Of course, for Captain Picard life was one of winning relentlessly against impossible odds on a weekly basis.
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I think the original quote points to something else - success in many walks of life is due to things outside of our control
So no mistakes is the mistake?
Tapestry (Season 6, Episode 15)
The mistake is believing that you can make no mistakes. Either you make a mistake by taking too long to polish everything to a blinding sheen, or you ship at a reasonable frequency and sometimes make mistakes in what you ship.