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.
Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
I will try one hundred times to get up, and if I fail one hundred times. If I fail and I give up, will I ever get up? No! If I fail Iβll try again, and again and again. But I want to tell you itβs not the end.
Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.
If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Damn it all, you have been given a life on this beautiful planet! Get off your ass and do something!
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