We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, "This is too difficult, too hard," he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, "This is too difficult, too hard," he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable." in the context of "Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.