Which is more important to success - talent or effort? Americans
Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.
I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better. 
Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.
A girl who is told repeatedly that she's no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The 
as much as talent counts, effort counts twice.
Stop reading so much and go think.
callings have little to do with formal job descriptions. In fact, she believes that just
Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't. With 
Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare. 
most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary. 
I learned a lesson I'd never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can't overreact to them. 
Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They'd rather show the highlight of what they've become. 
Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right. 
The highly accomplished were paragons of perseverance. 
Well okay, that didn't go so well, but I guess I will just carry on.' 
At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves. 
It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things: 
Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying. 