Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.
Interpretation
Stay committed to your goals while also being adaptable to change.
This quote emphasizes the importance of persistence in pursuing one's vision or goals while also recognizing that flexibility is crucial. It suggests that while determination is key to success, one must also be willing to adjust their plans and strategies in response to new information or changing circumstances.
In practice
In a motivational speech to a team facing challenges in a project.
Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most visible standard-bearers of their organizations. Holding them accountable to this responsibility protects the promise of our organizations and our communities.
The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.
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