Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, "divine."
Talent is one of the few things that can't be created. It can be enhanced - it can be coached and brought out of people - but you can't deny it.
Even primitive areas can produce a superstar.
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.
Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered--either by themselves or by others.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
There is a lot of talent in our slums.
Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.
Nobody thought that I could become a professional. I was not that good. It was really just one thing I had fun doing. But it was never realistic for me to become a professional until I became 17 or maybe 18.
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a pretty good singer, I guess.'
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
There is more inside you than you dare think.
There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.
There are things you don't want to know you can do
When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.
