Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
Mark TwainRead
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Interpretation
Success comes from enjoying what you do as if it were a vacation.
This quote emphasizes that true success is achieved when your work feels fulfilling and enjoyable, akin to the delight of a vacation. By aligning your passion with your profession, you not only excel in your career but also find joy in your daily activities, leading to a more enriching life experience.
In practice
During a motivational speech about career choices.
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.
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.
Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.
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