The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.

the key to human development is building on who you already are

What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay in bed enabling my hopelessness. I’d been the ugly in my world.

Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.

You don’t talk about how the job is going until the job is done, ” Loch said.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.

The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.