If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
Interpretation
Success in any field requires total focus and originality.
Otis Redding emphasizes the importance of dedication and unique creativity in pursuing a career in music. By highlighting that one must fully commit to their passion for singing and songwriting, he suggests that trying to balance multiple careers or imitating others will hinder true success in the industry.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a music school about the importance of originality.
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!
We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.
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