That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Interpretation
We should create our best reality through genuine effort and imagination.
In this quote, Hemingway emphasizes the importance of imagination and authenticity in our actions. He suggests that when we strive to reach our highest potential, we should fully embrace creativity and sincerity, crafting our dreams so convincingly that they eventually become a reality.
In practice
A motivational speech to encourage teamwork in a creative project.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Think I'll roll another number for the road
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.
I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!
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