If you want to get there in leaps and bounds beware of the spaces between those steps. A Burmese saying alit to the suggestion that such a movement would incur leaving yourself exposed and that would mean leaving yourself open to swift defeat. The corollary would be to move ahead but in smaller steps. There is always the analogy of the race between the hare and the tortoise ringing in the background on that account.
The Chinese came up with a complementary proverb suggesting that if one is to make great strides in his advancement, then one should at least be humble and giving to people less fortunate while on your way. They used the word ‘humanity’ in their statement that “he who would rise in the world should veil their ambition with a form of humanity”. Now this proverb may also be taken as being deceitful with the use of the word veil in the English translation but the author would rather see the positive out of it than some devious account of how someone pretended to be a humanitarian while on the rise.
Arthur Koestler a known historian mentioned that man should expect to be progressivley less known as time passes. Perhaos having been an historian he was aware of the fact the what is essential news for m or what one has ecperienced and writes like accounts of WW II will be much less popular in 30 years time than just after the conflict because still fewer people will have had any direct or indirect connection to that event. It will only be hearsay for many and for those wanting quick wealth and success across a globalized, they are not going to think of how people battled across the tight fitting European nations, where it all began. He refered to the contemporary writer but that person could be anyone writing down a truthful account of the moment. He should “trade a hundred readers for ten in ten years time and for one reader in a hundred years time”. it goes to show how relative ambition will be in time; he should account for the loss of interest as time progresses, facts change and new realties take the place of older events.