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?
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others?
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.
You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
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