Of Doers and Talkers
Posted By Randy on January 16, 2012
Source: http://bluebicicletta.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/get-back-on-the-horse-a-new-drawing-with-color/
Doers and Talkers
By LFM
The Doers and the Talkers
Are as a breed apart.
While Doers work and get things done,
The Talkers never start.
The Talker never does a thing
But bend the Doer’s ear,
The noise he makes comes from his mouth,
Not tools and working gear.
This happens from a simple cause –
A Talker doesn’t long
To join the Doers on their trail
Where Talkers don’t belong.
He sounds off with derision
When a better man is seen
To stumble time and time again
Pursuing “Might have been”.
But never will he lift a hand
To prove his “better” way.
His awesome skills he’ll hold in check
For use some future day.
My own reply, when Talkers call,
In person or by phone –
“Gather not your wool balls here.
“Piss off and find your own.”
Theodore Roosevelt:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
That’s always been a particular favourite of mine Gary, spoken by one of my favourite men.