You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
Interpretation
Embracing and managing stress can lead to personal growth and resilience.
This quote emphasizes the importance of not only accepting stress as an unavoidable part of life but actively seeking it out as a means of growth. It suggests that learning to thrive under pressure can lead to greater achievements and personal development, highlighting the idea that challenges and tension can serve as catalysts for success.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges and finding strength in adversity.
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.
There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.
Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
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