Slow and Steady wins the race.
Expansion of Ideas School & College Section.
The famous fable about the tortoise and the hare brings out the singular truth that slow and steady wins the race. Haste only makes waste, or results in shoddy work. This is especially true for students. Daily regular study delivers good results. Those students who want to complete their homework quickly just in order to play a match with their friends, finally learn little or nothing. This is true even while attempting an examination paper. Hasty writing of answers can lead to the making of careless mistakes, and will only result in low marks for the student.
If a director wishes to make a film in a hurry, he will have a shoddy product in his hand. But if he plans the script, the locations and the cast and takes rehearsals before going to the sets for shooting, he or she is sure to come out with a quality product. This is true for all great ventures, including the construction of a building. It is better to draw the blueprint first. Then comes the laying of the foundation, and the rest of the construction work in stages. If a building is constructed in haste, it might collapse and lead to disaster.
So whatever you do in life, plan every detail carefully, collect the equipment required for the project, and then go about performing the act. Then only will you be ableable to achieve grand success.
Difficult Words & Meanings:
- Fable: A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
- Singular: Exceptional, unique, or remarkable.
- Haste: Excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry.
- Shoddy: Badly made or done; of poor quality.
- Attempting: Making an effort to achieve or complete something.
- Careless: Not giving sufficient attention or thought to avoiding harm or mistakes.
- Ventures: Risky or daring journeys or undertakings.
- Blueprint: A design plan or other technical drawing.
- Foundation: The lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level.
- Collapse: (Of a structure) fall down or in; give way.
- Disaster: A sudden event, such as an accident or a natural catastrophe, that causes great damage or loss of life.
- Achieve: Successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective, level, or result) by effort, skill, or courage.
- Grand: Magnificent and imposing in appearance, size, or style; very good or enjoyable.