Pete Cashmore Quotes

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

As an actor, you always look for things that will stretch you and that are different than you are, so that you can surprise yourself, and you want to surround yourself with the highest caliber of people that will make you look good.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent, but the point is that if they did train, it would not inhibit them. If they were with a good teacher, it would only broaden them more.

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.

People should be hired "as is" and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.

All skills are learnable.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity, full of capability, it's a wonderful creation, but many people never get a chance to explore that, never know that she or he has that.

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

Never underestimate people.

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.

There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound disconnection. It is not easy to recognize the pain such a person is in, especially because they may not be conscious of it themselves. They may present themselves to the world as just fine. If you believe human beings have a potential for deep connection, wisdom and love; the limitation in those peoples' lives becomes clearer.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.

What people can dream, people can do.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.