If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Interpretation
Trusting and following your instincts can lead to significant opportunities and acceptance from the world around you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself and embracing one's instincts. When a person is steadfast in their beliefs and values, they can attract the world to their perspective, suggesting that authenticity and confidence can lead to positive recognition and acceptance from others.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire individuals to pursue their dreams.
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?
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.
Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.
I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.
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