"I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn't sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up."

Potential, Talent, Ambition, Waiting, Discovery

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"I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn't sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up."

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"All you have already done, achieved and opened it is not a potential."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"God desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Every individual must be given the opportunity to unearth his/her highest potential."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow."

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"Time is the source of greatness."

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"Do according to your capability.Act according to your capacity.Go according to your curiosity.Be according to your possibility."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"You are infinite intelligence, creativity and Energy-Consciousness which gives you the power and wisdom to attain fulfillment and completion in life."

Ilchi Lee, South Korean Author

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"Human potential is the ability of a person or humanity to put their theoretical abilities into practice."

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"The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them."

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Identity

"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."

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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."

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"It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger."

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"I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion."

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"Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave."

Grief

"I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints."

Experience

"Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you."

Writing

"People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned."

Relationship

"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."

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