Do your work, but do your thing.
Interpretation
Balance your responsibilities with your personal passions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of fulfilling one's duties while also staying true to oneself. Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that work should not solely define a person; instead, one should integrate personal interests and passions into their work life to achieve a sense of fulfillment and authenticity.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, you might use this quote to encourage others to pursue their passions alongside their careers.
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 safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
A coward judges all he sees by what he is.
He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
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