“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of a giant”

Sir isaac Newton

In order to be successful, you have to learn from other people's mistakes and successes

He didn't do everything he did alone

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myads890: In order to be successful, you have to learn from other people's mistakes and successes

Not mistakes par se. It simply means that works done by others before him make his accomplishments possible.

It means there were bigger influences by other people in his success story

curiouses:

Not mistakes par se. It simply means that works done by others before him make his accomplishments possible.

Part of those "works" include mistakes. Nothing worthwhile has ever come easy. For instance did you know that the Wright brothers weren't the first to design an airplane? The were the first to "fly" it though. They learnt from the mistake of their predecessor.

curiouses:

Not mistakes par se. It simply means that works done by others before him make his accomplishments possible.

Part of those "works" include mistakes. Nothing worthwhile has ever come easy. For instance did you know that the Wright brothers weren't the first to design an airplane? The were the first to "fly" it though. They learnt from the mistake of their predecessor. Am I right or am I right?

It means he made it with the support of others

It means he was successful because he was able to realize the importance of having role models or mentors... and able to learn frm their pro et contra of their own stories

Thanks to you all, am getting the information needed. I would be posting an article soon.

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myads890:

Part of those "works" include mistakes. Nothing worthwhile has ever come easy. For instance did you know that the Wright brothers weren't the first to design an airplane? The were the first to "fly" it though. They learnt from the mistake of their predecessor.

who b their predecessor?big lie

curiouses:

Not mistakes par se. It simply means that works done by others before him make his accomplishments possible.

100%

Could also be interpreted as: In order to be a success, you must follow great like-minds.

kenny1795: It means there were bigger influences by other people in his success story

A GIANT HE SAID



ILLUMINATTI

If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants = "discovering truth by building on previous discoveries".

Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as New Years Day, equivalent to 15 February 1676 by Gregorian reckonings.] The phrase is most famous as an expression of Newton's but he was using a simile which in its earliest known form was attributed to Bernard of Chartres by John of Salisbury:

Bernard of Chartres used to say that we [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter. And this is not at all because of the acuteness of our sight or the stature of our body, but because we are carried aloft and elevated by the magnitude of the giants.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

He is talking about mentorship

alotofgrace:

A GIANT HE SAID



ILLUMINATTI

ok I guess by one great person then

Sir George Cayley. Do your own research

shoyemiayodeji:




who b their predecessor?big lie