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.
Things take the time they take. Don't worry.
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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