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.
Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
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