Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
Interpretation
Act on your thoughts immediately to inspire others and achieve personal growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking immediate action on creative thoughts and insights. By delaying the expression of these ideas, one risks losing their potency and failing to inspire others. Additionally, it conveys that personal transformation is essential for achieving unprecedented success, suggesting that we must evolve beyond our current selves to reach new heights.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage budding writers to start their projects.
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.
I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set
Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness
Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.._x000D_ So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop
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