Skills are common. Talent is rare.
“He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.”
“Shall I be'her'?”
“My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pr...”
“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.”
“There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance”
“The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.”
“Livin' ain't livin' if your livin' ain't givin'.”
“What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet...”
“Permit no man to make a mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your prized possession, value it”
“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a ...”
“One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.”