For any of you that have followed Random Girl for any amount of time, you know of my adoration for Jared Leto aka lead singer of 30 Seconds To Mars aka Jordan Catalano of the TV teen angst drama "My So Called Life".
I have posted about him before and featured the band on my
Soft-Core Friday Sex and Rock-N-RollWell, I follow his blog
Notes from the Outernet and I am quite impressed. It's not a self-serving, self-promoting commercialized site like many musicians have. He posts all sorts of things he observes in his travels around the world and he is quite the photographer as well.
Recently he posted the following famous quote. The sentiment speaks for itself. Here's to hoping that today we are all in the arena.
It’s not the critic that counts…
It is not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-President Theodore Roosevelt
Paris 1910
