To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Milton GlaserRead
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
Interpretation
True success comes from combining talent with will, desire, and persistence.
Milton Glaser emphasizes that talent alone is insufficient for success; it must be coupled with willpower, desire, and perseverance. This means that the way we apply our talents through determination and a strong desire to achieve is what ultimately leads to growth and accomplishment, suggesting that even a little talent can be cultivated into something significant when paired with these qualities.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.
The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.
Less isn't more; just enough is more.
You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you're not even able to judge well whether you're working well or not.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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