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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."

"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

"They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them."

"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."

"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars."

"We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college."

"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."

"And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right."

"I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on."

"I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote."

"We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point."

"I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me."
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