| Education - 1904 - 554 pages
...Insist on yourself; never imitate. Tour own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative cflect of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another yon have only an extemporaneous half-possession. . . Oiir spontaneous action is always the Ixist. .... | |
| William Estabrook Chancellor - 1905 - 112 pages
...en'ni al al'a bas'ter 65 iniq'uity le'ni ence hu mil'i ate mer'ce na ry 66 Thoughts from Emerson " Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Calendars - 1905 - 138 pages
...abstract of the codes of nations would be a transcript of the common conscience. POLITICS DECEMBER TWELFTH Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. SELF-RELIANCE DECEMBER... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-confidence - 1905 - 70 pages
...in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. 43 Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
| Maxims - 1905 - 330 pages
...crooked, intricate, inconstant and various things. — BURKE. Insist upon yourself; never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. — EMERSON. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. — JOHN STERLING. Instruction ends in the... | |
| Ideology - 1910 - 240 pages
...This much truth at all events there is in the startling warning of Emerson, " Never imitate. * * * That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him." l Thus liberally construed, examples tell in at least three conspicuous directions. peltY" the (0 In... | |
| Charles T. Sprading - Libertarianism - 1913 - 550 pages
...chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what... | |
| Harry Levinson, Cynthia Lang - Business & Economics - 1981 - 388 pages
...subordinates, as Emerson did in his essay "Self Reliance": "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift can present every moment with the cumulative force...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession."22 Emerson's advice is not always followed, and in some organizations identification... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumuJative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only... | |
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