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?
There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
I learned a lot from more experienced mountaineers, such as Peter Habeler, but by the time I was about 21 I reckoned I had learned all that I needed to make me technically self-sufficient anywhere.
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
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