Fetterisms (2 of 5)

"Pretty Is As Pretty Does"
(Guest Blogger: Paul "Papa" Fetters)

Over the years, I have learned to be cautious in employing, assigning, selecting, or recommending potential.

Often, when I have bought into one’s "potential" at 20, they still were showing "potential" at 40...and still waiting for performance.

The recommendations of leaders are often based on one’s potential or what one hopes the person will some day become. Those who are some day “gonna be” when this happens or that happens will remain a “gonna be.”

Potential and promise of an elite thorough bred hound will look pretty on paper and sound great in speech, but the performance of a ordinary beagle, whose mother comes from good stock and whose father is unknown, will get the job done.