Success is No Accident | Motivational Podcasts

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Listen to episode 909 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Success is No Accident | Motivational Podcasts. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: Michelangelo was one day explaining to a visitor at his studio what he had been doing to a statue since a previous visit. "I have retouched this part—polished that—softened this feature—brought out that muscle— given some expression to this lip, and more energy to that limb."

"But those are trifles," said the visitor.

"It may be so," replied Michelangelo, "but recollect that trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."

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0:00.0	Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about
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1:03.4	All lowercase.
1:05.3	Go to Shopify.com slash inspirational to upgrade your selling today.
1:13.0	Shopify.com slash inspirational.
1:16.9	Thank you. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast.
1:35.5	Today's reading was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun, published in 1895.
1:46.0	A person may leap into sudden fortune out of bound, and without effort or foresight, but it is doubtful if any great permanent
2:04.1	success ever was the outcome of blind chance.
2:09.6	The old adage, trust to luck, like many other adages that time has kept in unmerited circulation is a bad one.
2:20.3	The individual who trusts to luck for their clothing is apt to wear rags,
2:26.3	and the one who depends on it for food is sure to go hungry.
2:31.3	We hear a great deal about the wonderful things that have been done by chance,
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