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?
You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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