Beyond the Rhetoric

“Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five. In other words, fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.” While it may certainly be true that we should be [...]

Yes, while there is certainly value in going to school or receiving formal training, there are also all sorts of lessons that can be learned from all sorts of different sources. I’ve previously written about what freelancers can learn from politicians, from comedians and even from fictional characters. Today, we turn to the world of [...]

“You’re not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.” There were many stories to emerge from the London 2012 Summer Olympics. You might talk about how the unsportsmanlike “throwing” of games threw Canada’s pair into the women’s badminton semi-finals. You might talk about Usain Bolt defending his golden [...]

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” It was once said that waiting for inspiration was only possible for people who had the luxury of time. It was also said that the most inspirational thing in the world is a looming deadline. When your livelihood relies on your [...]

“Not that everything you do will end up a masterpiece. But you should paint it like it could be.” For most of these Sunday Snippet entries that I post on Beyond the Rhetoric, I turn to relatively prominent figures like Albert Einstein. Some may be more obscure than others, but they are usually deemed to [...]