Today's quotes...
Dec. 23rd, 2005 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoFrom today's "Quotes of the day": "
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton, 1886 - 1967
and
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884 - 1962
Which made me wonder: which is more important, enthusiasm or curiosity? They tend to go together. Curiosity is enthusiasm about something you haven't encountered yet.
Of course, I don't think either trait can be given, except by fairy godmothers. Too bad they aren't in greater supply.
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton, 1886 - 1967
and
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884 - 1962
Which made me wonder: which is more important, enthusiasm or curiosity? They tend to go together. Curiosity is enthusiasm about something you haven't encountered yet.
Of course, I don't think either trait can be given, except by fairy godmothers. Too bad they aren't in greater supply.
