If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.
Margaret MitchellRead
Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.
Interpretation
Brilliance is a combination of natural ability, knowledge, and intense enthusiasm.
This quote by Margaret Mitchell suggests that true brilliance isn't solely dependent on talent; rather, it is a blend of wisdom and passion, indicating that achieving excellence requires not only innate abilities but also accumulated knowledge and a fervent drive. It's a reminder that cultivating a deep understanding of one's field and maintaining a passionate commitment are essential to standing out and achieving outstanding results.
In practice
In a motivational speech about achieving goals.
If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.
You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
men are so conceited theyβll believe anything that flatters them
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?
He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.
Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.
I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
No building is better than its structural foundation, and no man (woman) is better than his (her) mental foundation. When I prepared my original Success Pyramid years ago, I put industriousness and enthusiasm as the two cornerstones with LOYALTY right in the middle of the pyramid - Loyalty to yourself and to all those dependent upon you.
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.
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