“Build therefore your own world.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.”
Source: Science and the Unseen World (1929), Ch. VIII, p.82
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.”
Misattributed
Address to the U.S. House of Representatives (February 18, 1943)
The Forerunner (1920)
Context: You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.
Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.
“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000); here, Lee was reciting lines he wrote for his short lived role on the TV series Longstreet.
Context: Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.