Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.
Interpretation
Stay alert and proactive in your endeavors.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being observant and responsive to one's surroundings. It suggests that by maintaining awareness and vocalizing our thoughts or concerns, we can better navigate challenges and seize opportunities as they arise.
In practice
In a motivational speech encouraging teamwork, one might say this quote to inspire vigilance and participation.
So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
But when a manβs religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.
I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar! I hope it has inspired people.
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