“…there are a lot of people with talent and passion, and many of them never get anywhere. This is only the first step toward achieving anything in life. Natural talent is like an athlete’s strength. You can be born with more or less ability, but nobody can become an athlete just because he or she [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘ability’
July 10, 2009
Ragnar Danneskjöld on Robin Hood
“It is said that [Robin Hood] fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, [...]
July 10, 2009
Dagny Taggart on Punishing Ability
“Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can’t be punished for being good. One can’t be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we’d better start slaughtering one another, because there isn’t any right [...]
July 11, 2007
Albus Dumbledore on Choices
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
– Albus Dumbledore in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, chapter 18
