The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-05
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TAKE A CHANCE

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TAKE CHANCE
IF you ever expect to accomplish anything don't
wait for inspiration or the creative impulse.
Just start fumbling, and by chance you
may make success. After you have achieved
success, you will know and your friends will
acknowledge that you have creative intelligence.
Until you've tried neither you nor anyone else
knows what's inside you.
People wish to get into business. They
think they would like to WRITE to act, to sing,
to do something out of the ordinary.
The thing to do is start now.
Take chance. Take the risk of making
fool of yourself.
The wise men say function makes faculty."
which means that we learn by doing.
The mark of every first-rate man is suffici-
ent egotism to overcome the shyness that blocks
self-expression. Most of US are so self-conscious
that when step out of little corner
We become timid as mice, and as one writer
says, we behave like idiots.
What we must learn, according to the
psychologists, is that everyone else is victim
of the same timidty that thwarts US. A few
have had the courage to step out and many Of
them have acclaim.
If we hope to amount to anything, we too
must break away from the herd. We must be-
gin to function as individuals. Having done
that find ourselves blessed with the germ of
originality,
THE BIGGEST DOG WAS ONCE A PUP.
DR.. Roy L. Smith
Talent, in it's crude state, has very little
market value. 1t is like that has not gone
through the smelter. 1t needs refining. And the
refining process, by the way, is often an extreme
ly painful tedious and expensive one.
The most skilled surgeon in America was
once a bunderbus. He knew nothing of incisions,
draining of wounds, blood CLOTHING anaesthetics,
heart action, antiseptics, etc. All this he had to
learn. He may have learned it easily and quick
ly because of his interest and enthusiasm, but he
did not acquire his skill by any miracle.
The greatest architect living had to
learn to draw straight lines and graceful curves.
1t necessary for his to master the intricacies
of tenslity, proportion, symmetry and design
His skill and imagination may be almost uncanny
by this time, but it was not always so.
Walter Johnson the greatest pitcher of them
all, threw lot of wild ones before he established
that remarkable control. Babe Ruth struck out
a good many times before he began hitting home
runs Christy Matthewson, one of the greatest
stars in baseballdom spent months at time
pitching to the neighboring boys, getting the
muscles of his subordinated to his will.
There was time when Paderewski knew
nothing about music, when James Montgomery
Flagg was totally ignorant of color values, when
Galli-Curci could not "carry tune" when Henry
Ford could not borrow dollar and when Rud-
yard Kipling didn't know his A C's.
Brsbane's first editorials were not paid for
at hundred thousand dollars a year. Mark
Twains first book did not produce fifty thous-
and dollars in royalties. Francois Millet paint
I'D nct,1reS for wears before he attracted anv
wide attention.
Even the man who is born great finds it
necessary to work hard or his greatness. deserts
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Nature has no favorites, besides the indus