What one does easily, one does well.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that tasks performed with ease are likely to be done effectively and with skill.
Andrew Carnegie's quote highlights the idea that familiarity and practice lead to proficiency. When a person engages in activities that they find easy, it often indicates that they have a natural talent or have developed skills relevant to those tasks. This suggests that success in certain endeavors comes from pursuing what one is good at and feels comfortable doing, thus leading to a higher quality of work.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding career paths that suit your strengths.
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.
With a heavy load and a long journey
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