The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Interpretation
Aiming too low can prevent us from reaching our full potential.
This quote by Michelangelo highlights the peril of setting insufficiently challenging goals. Instead of fearing failure from aiming high, we should be concerned about the complacency that comes from seeking only easy achievements, which limits our true potential and growth.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage students to pursue ambitious career goals.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.
I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me
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