None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Interpretation
Personal intuition and individuality are key to achieving excellence.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of listening to one’s inner voice or intuition when pursuing excellence. It suggests that true accomplishment comes from a deep, personal understanding and connection to one’s own unique aspirations, rather than simply following external pressures or mainstream expectations.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference about personal growth.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again
People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.
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