"An orator or author is never successful..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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“It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
“The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.”
“Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.”
More on Success
“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.”
“One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
“We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.”
More on Communication
“Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.”
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
“I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel.”