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?
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. ~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)
It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.
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