{"id":159,"date":"2020-12-28T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northlat.biz\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2020-12-28T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:28:28","slug":"wisdom-and-trivia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/home\/art-and-dorothy-nesse-in-memory\/art-nesses-web\/wisdom-and-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom and Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/home\/art-and-dorothy-nesse-in-memory\/art-nesses-web\/wisdom-and-trivia\/pride-cometh-before-the-fall\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"232\">Pride Cometh Before the Fall<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/letter-from-richard-sipley-jr-2015\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"235\">Letter from Dick Sipley<\/a> &#8211; 2015<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h.p_ID_32\"><strong>Collected quotations &#8211; Published on the occasion of Art Nesse&#8217;s 85th birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h.p_ID_34\">Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its extremes are not subject to the regulation of conscience (anonymous)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h.p_ID_36\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lined coat, warm cap and easy felt slippers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in the little home, at the window, sitting near the fire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>body at rest, heart at peace; no need to rise early<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if the workers at headquarters know of these things or not<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h.p_ID_46\">Po Chu i 800AD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h.p_ID_48\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h.p_ID_50\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t allow your subnordinate to delegate up, &#8220;he said &#8220;don&#8217;t find yourself doing his job you are the coach; you don&#8217;t play his position for him. If you are spending too much time guiding somebody, correcting his errors, cleaning up after him, you have not choice&#8211;you have to make the inevitable decision.&#8221; (unattributed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h.p_ID_52\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h.p_ID_54\">&#8220;I have thoroughly conceptualized my work for this week, but to my chagrin, I find it is simply not operationally feasible.&#8221; Yale University Professor, in New Yorker Magazine, May 1967<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pride Cometh Before the Fall Letter from Dick Sipley &#8211; 2015 Collected quotations &#8211; Published on the occasion of Art Nesse&#8217;s 85th birthday. Virtue is more to be feared than vice because its extremes are not subject to the regulation of conscience (anonymous) &#8212; Lined coat, warm cap and easy felt slippers in the little&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/home\/art-and-dorothy-nesse-in-memory\/art-nesses-web\/wisdom-and-trivia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wisdom and Trivia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":155,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/238"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nesse.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}