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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

Only those who have to do the simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Friedrich von Schiller

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15 Comments CherryPie on Oct 24th 2010

15 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. Bernard says:
    October 24, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    How do you get the Sunflower AND the wall behind in perfect focus?
    f32 or something I guess. :)
    Really good Cherie. :)
    I am such a failure. :(
    Well not all the time, maybe……but your quote does apply to me in many things.
    I love to do simple things as well as I can. (never perfectly). Therefore, with that frame of mind, the difficult things do just become easy! :)
    My old Dad used to say:- “Son, if a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well.”

    • CherryPie says:
      October 24, 2010 at 11:20 pm

      I am not sure but I think I had it set to auto, but I have just checked the Exif data and it says the aperture setting was f/4.0.

      My Dad used to say that to me too, but of course he didn’t call me son ;-)

  2. jams o donnell says:
    October 24, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    Schiller diddn’t have me in mind when writing that!

  3. jams o donnell says:
    October 24, 2010 at 9:12 pm

    Or didn’t!

  4. Andrew Scott says:
    October 24, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    My old Dad used to say “Son, if a job’s worth doing then I won’t be wanting your help.”

    The only thing I’ve ever done perfectly is offending someone unintentionally while trying to be funny. I’m exceptionally good at that.

  5. sally says:
    October 24, 2010 at 10:21 pm

    beautiful sunflowers :-) cheered my day up x

  6. Sean Jeating says:
    October 25, 2010 at 1:34 am

    My father-in-law used to say: Sean, you can be stupid … as long as you know how to help yourself.
    A fine photo, Mylady, if I dare say so. :)

  7. liz says:
    October 25, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    What a lovely photo!

  8. Janice says:
    October 26, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    I always feel perfectionists are bordering on neurosis. On a few occasions I tried to “perfect” a painting over and over until I realized it was getting out of hand…
    Love this photo Cherie.