One of my favorite sayings of late is:
"Big minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, small minds talk about people"
- Eleanor Roosevelt
This one line statement can be interpreted many ways, from the loosest to the strictest sense.
The way I look at it is not each of the three pieces are exclusive, but generally, people lean towards one of the three pieces. You cannot exclusively talk about one without the other two in most cases.
There's also a bit of your background on where you fall into these categories, i.e. your upbringing and environment that you were brought up in.
But ultimately, human society runs on ideas and the execution of ideas. Talking about ideas fosters more ideas and more creativity that can be executed on. It also helps the mind feel alive and interested.
Discussing events, and more so, people, are a result of talking about happenings around us vs ideas to make the happenings around us better.
Only with ideas, can the world improve and move forward.
So, as you go to school, work, hang with friends, or relatives, keep in mind that the guiding the discussions towards ideas is more enjoyable then what's happening when or who's doing what, and do not expect anything less.
What do you think about this saying?
"Big minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, small minds talk about people"
- Eleanor Roosevelt
This one line statement can be interpreted many ways, from the loosest to the strictest sense.
The way I look at it is not each of the three pieces are exclusive, but generally, people lean towards one of the three pieces. You cannot exclusively talk about one without the other two in most cases.
There's also a bit of your background on where you fall into these categories, i.e. your upbringing and environment that you were brought up in.
But ultimately, human society runs on ideas and the execution of ideas. Talking about ideas fosters more ideas and more creativity that can be executed on. It also helps the mind feel alive and interested.
Discussing events, and more so, people, are a result of talking about happenings around us vs ideas to make the happenings around us better.
Only with ideas, can the world improve and move forward.
So, as you go to school, work, hang with friends, or relatives, keep in mind that the guiding the discussions towards ideas is more enjoyable then what's happening when or who's doing what, and do not expect anything less.
What do you think about this saying?
