fostering potential Quotes

Talent cannot be learned, it can only be developed.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.

The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.

I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.

I think that I'm trying to hopefully change my children's ideas about what is possible, and about what is possible for them.

We don't sign superstars, we make them.