In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Interpretation
Every person has something valuable to teach us, and we should remain humble and open to learning from others.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of humility and the value of lifelong learning. It suggests that each individual possesses unique insights and experiences that can enrich our understanding, and we should approach each encounter with the mindset of a student, eager to learn from those around us.
In practice
In a workshop on leadership, this quote can inspire participants to learn from each other.
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?
The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
You can't afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.
It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.
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.
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.
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