The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Interpretation
It's more dangerous to have low ambitions than to aim high and fail.
Michelangelo emphasizes that individuals often limit themselves by not striving for their true potential. Rather than fearing failure from high aspirations, the real peril lies in being content with mediocre goals and thereby failing to realize oneβs fullest abilities and potential.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students about their future careers.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.
Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment.
To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.
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