Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
Interpretation
Identify your passions and skills to shape your life purpose.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in defining one's life direction. Instead of confining oneself to a job title, it encourages individuals to recognize their unique talents and contributions to the world, which can lead to a more fulfilling and authentic life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career development.
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.
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