None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Interpretation
Personal intuition and individuality are key to achieving excellence.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of listening to oneβs inner voice or intuition when pursuing excellence. It suggests that true accomplishment comes from a deep, personal understanding and connection to oneβs own unique aspirations, rather than simply following external pressures or mainstream expectations.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a conference about personal growth.
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?
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
Sometimes you donβt just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
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