Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

Speak only what is useful and beneficial.

To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

We are here to add what we can to life,
not to get what we can from life

~William Osler~

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it — or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

Nella vita non raccogli ciò che semini, raccogli ciò che curi.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

the combination of your WHY and HOWs is as exclusively yours as your fingerprint.

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

But you possess one quality that no one else does.

Oh?

Your identity. Your history, deeds and situation. Use those to shape your creation and you will produce something unique. Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

Be pleased, gentlemen, to dispose of what belongs to yourselves as you think proper, but leave us the disposal of the fruit of our own toil, to use it or exchange it as we see best. Declaim on self-sacrifice as much as you choose, it is all very fine and very beautiful, but be at least consistent.