All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Interpretation
Life is a series of experiments, and making more of them leads to improvement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of experimentation in life, suggesting that every experience contributes to our knowledge and growth. By engaging in various experiments, whether in thought, action, or exploration, we refine our understanding and enhance our capabilities, ultimately leading to a richer and more fulfilling existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to take risks in their careers.
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?
...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.
I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.
My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women—that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser.
It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two
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