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The new venture I am starting, Ding, is largely about developing talent and courage. Here are some reflections on both:
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
- Erica Jong
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
- Calvin Coolidge
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
- Henry Van Dyke
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
- Ambrose Redmoon
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne
“Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.”
- Warren G Bennis
“All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents”
- John F Kennedy
And finally...
"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is."
- John Lancaster Spalding
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