Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.
-- Mark Twain
About the Quote
For us to become more than what we are, we need to imitate people who are in their lives where we want to be in ours. Those people happened to be where we are today, only earlier in their lives. If they could succeed, so can we. This is true whether we are talking about faith and spirituality, professional success, or wealth and high net worth.
Along the way we will encounter people with small minds which are dominated by jealousy and envy. (We may have even been those small-minded people ourselves; no one is perfect, so we live and learn.) Because of that jealousy and envy, small-minded people take every opportunity to build themselves up by tearing others down. While it's true that few people ever become A-List actors or Hall of Fame-caliber athletes, someone has to become that. If that's the case, why not us?
Some (More) Information about Mark Twain
Shortly after his father died in 1847, Samuel Clemens left school to work at a local newspapers as printer's apprentice. His duties involved setting the type for each of the newspaper's stories, and in this way he began to learn about the world outside his town and nation.
When he turned 18, Clemens went to work for several newspapers in New York, New York, US and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Along the way he found success as a journalist writing articles for these periodicals.
In 1857, at age 21, he returned home to Missouri to begin the new career which would help him pick his pen name: riverboat pilot along the Mississipi River.
In July 1861 Clemens headed west to strike it rich in the silver rush of the Nevada Territory; things didn't work out as he had hoped. However, the trip from Missouri to Nevada Territory by stagecoach provided him with not only mishaps and disappointments but also the opportunities to meet intersting people (among them people from Native American tribes). These experiences would be used for material in short stories and novels.
After giving up silver prospcting, Samuel Clemens went back to newspaper writing, this time working for the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada Terriroty. It was at this job where Samuel Clemens had become the author we know today as Mark Twain.
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