“Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.” — Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) .
Month: September 2006
So what about talent then?
Soon after our last seminar I was asked to clarify the difference between skill and talent, without gettting into silly semantic discussions. If skill is being able to perform perfectly, all the time and every time, talent is the ability to lift and project skills into new vistas of possibility. Talent is the ability to…
How did he know, 50 years ago:-)
“People constantly speak of ‘the government’ doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men.” H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)