 Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best,...  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 44by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stephen D. Easton - 1998 - 284 pages
...another attorney's style, you will look like a phony. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift can present every moment with the cumulative force...cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you only have an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach... | |
 | Anne Varty - 2000 - 276 pages
...in a srare of pulp and allows herself to be moulded. 'Never imirare,' says Emerson, 'your own gifr you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopred ralent of another you have only a half possession.' The Ametican school girl does not imirare.... | |
 | William C. Stokoe, David F. Armstrong, Michael A. Karchmer - 2002 - 308 pages
...come! Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance" could have been written to describe Bill Stokoe: "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift...the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation . . . Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." This was Bill Stokoe, a man who allowed us to... | |
 | James S. Ackerman - 2002 - 356 pages
...never imitate. Your own gift can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole lifetime's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."43 Everything changes when Nature includes not only the outer world but the inner; if one... | |
 | 156 pages
...paths of other minds rather than forging ahead our own. "Insist on yourself," Emerson admonishes us, "never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possession." Every great person is unique and not a copy of someone else. "The Scipionism of Scipio... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...Do you consider yourself a reformer? What would you reform if you could and how would you reform it? Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, until that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is... | |
 | Micki McGee - 2005 - 304 pages
...talents regardless of the demands of society or the labor market in his 1841 essay "Self-Reliance": Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. . . . Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. 27 Yet within the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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...the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; bat of the adopted talent of another you have only ao extemporaneous half possession. That which each... | |
 | Alexandra Stoddard - 2009 - 228 pages
...live our time alive. Our excitement about all aspects of our life is our true and poignant story. * INSIST ON YOURSELF; NEVER IMITATE. YOUR OWN GIFT YOU...THE CUMULATIVE FORCE OF A WHOLE LIFE'S CULTIVATION. EMERSON CHAPTER FIVE Car i * 48* you Come Jírst THERE ISJUST ONE LIFE FOR EACH OF US:OUR OWN. EURIPIDES... | |
 | 2004 - 516 pages
...honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. — Sir Richard Steele Self-Esteem & Confidence Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you...moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultrvation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.... | |
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