Whether you believe you can, or whether
you believe you can’t, you’re absolutely right.
Henry Ford, US
automobile manufacturer, engineer (1863-1947)
Every man has one thing he can do better
than anyone else – and usually it’s reading his own handwriting.
J Norman Collie,
British mountaineer (1859-1942)
If a man is to called to be a street
sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven
played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that
all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street
sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr,
US civil rights leader (1929-1968)
A human being should be able to change a
diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a
sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take
orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new
problem, pitch manure, programme a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialisation is for insects.
Lazarus Long,
character in a novel by Robert Heinlein (1907-1988)
Talent never asks, ‘Will they like it?’
Talent pleases itself. That’s the difference between talent and
ordinary.
Larry King, US talk
show host (b.1933)
People’s beliefs about their abilities
have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property;
there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of
self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to
handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.
Albert Bandura, US
psychologist (b.1925)
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