Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
Interpretation
Perfection is unattainable; you must take action and learn from your failures.
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking action rather than waiting for the perfect moment or perfect self. It suggests that the journey towards self-improvement involves making mistakes and learning from them, just like everyone else. Instead of holding back due to the fear of imperfection, one should embrace the fallibility inherent in the human experience and use it as an opportunity for growth.
In practice
This quote can inspire individuals in a motivational speech at a conference.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.
It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.
Resolutions require only words. Results take action.
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