What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.
Interpretation
Actions and behaviors often speak louder than words, highlighting the importance of integrity and authenticity.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the idea that a person's true essence and character are conveyed through their actions and demeanor rather than just their spoken words. It suggests that one’s behavior and intrinsic qualities can overshadow verbal communication, making it essential to align one’s actions with their words for genuine communication and understanding.
In practice
During a leadership seminar to highlight the importance of leading by example.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
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