If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
Interpretation
To excel, one must adopt unique approaches rather than conforming to the masses.
This quote highlights the importance of individuality and innovation in achieving superior results. John Templeton emphasizes that if you desire to outperform others, you need to break away from conventional methods and find your own path, suggesting that true success stems from embracing creativity and distinctiveness.
In practice
In a motivational speech to young entrepreneurs about standing out in the market.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
Pessimism never won any battle.
Didn't get promoted? Good. More time to get better.
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.
It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.
Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.
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