You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations... (ed. 1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can...

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can...

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can...

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can...