The wildest colts make the best horses.
Interpretation
Those who are naturally untamed or rebellious may grow to become the most strong and capable individuals.
This quote suggests that individuals who exhibit wild or unruly behavior, much like young colts, often possess great potential and strength. With the right guidance and experience, they can be transformed into remarkable leaders or achievers, just as wild horses, when tamed, can become powerful and skilled riding horses.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to highlight the importance of embracing individuality.
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Come back with your shield - or on it
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.
Reality - the way that is, exactly as it is, in every moment - is always kind. It's our story about reality that blurs our vision, obscures what's true, and leads us to believe that there is injustice in the world. I sometimes say that you move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.
When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.
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