...minds rather than forging ahead our own. "Insist on yourself," Emerson admonishes us, "never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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...

...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...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton?...

...What would you reform if you could and how would you reform it? Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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...

...of society or the labor market in his 1841 essay "Self-Reliance": Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...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...

...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 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...

...about all aspects of our life is our true and poignant story. * INSIST ON YOURSELF; NEVER IMITATE. YOUR OWN GIFT YOU CAN PRESENT EVERY MOMENT WITH 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...

...who receives it. — Sir Richard Steele Self-Esteem & Confidence Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every 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....

...escape from his individuality. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860 ~ Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the...talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-expression. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,...

...Emerson, "Self Reliance," in Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), pp. 278-79: "[O]f the adopted talent of another, you have only...each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him." 205 Plato, Republic, Book VI, 488a-e. The philosopher (captain), in "being somewhat short-sighted [horonta...

...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...exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton?...