I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.
But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.
We have no right through narrow mindedness to dictate the future of our children.
-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.
If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.
If you're nervous you think: 'I don't want to make mistakes or give the ball away.' But you limit your own qualities then.
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.
When I got into the league, guys didn't expect me to be as quick and fast as I was. I think it was myself holding myself back.
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.
When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.
It doesn't matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the best you can be.
I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
