This is the second edition of the series "Dissecting Quotes", where I choose a quote and briefly describe what I think the quote means and how to apply it to our everyday lives. I hope the insight a high schooler can provide can help brighten a day or get you thinking.
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary,
great minds with the ordinary." - Blaise Pascal
This quote, personally, is a good one. I like how it not only speaks the truth but also subtly gives instruction on how to develop a great mind. The first part says, "Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary," which, to me, speaks the truth. I know from my own experiences, I have wanted to change something, to make an amazing product, or develop an astonishing idea. It was here that I was concerned about extraordinary things, as the quote says. But as I became a high schooler, and even just in the past year, I have started to look at the smaller things, the hidden and concealed problems.
As the second part of the quote says, "great minds with the ordinary," I have been trying to think outside the box, but not so far outside I cannot see the box. I am not trying to say I have a great mind, which I do not, but to possess a great mind, one has to work at developing it. It is here that I have been trying to work, working to stimulate my brain, and thus possibly achieve more than was originally possible. With this quote, I hope all of you can take away what I took away, not to be concerned with gigantic problems or ideas, but to focus on the small ones, the ones that will get us far.
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