Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
Mark TwainRead
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
Interpretation
Finding the perfect words to express an idea is a significant skill.
This quote by Mark Twain emphasizes the importance of precise communication. Crafting language carefully to convey thoughts accurately is a rare and admirable skill, suggesting that effective expression greatly enhances understanding and connection between individuals.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of clear communication, I quoted Mark Twain.
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
The question is not what you look at β but how you look & whether you see.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
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