I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
To be honest, I'm worth more than 12-14 million. Just for the things I do on the court that don't show up on the stat sheet. You don't find guys like that.
I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks.
The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.
In 2NE1, you mostly see just one side of CL.
It can be a real blow to our egos when we feel as if our hard-earned degrees don't matter as much as our ability to get the morning coffee orders right.
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.
Everybody agreed I had all this talent, but I didn't know what to make of it.
Talent, it can become a trap.
Every time I'd get a job, they'd say: 'You'll be good at loading trucks.' I couldn't explain that there was more to me than carrying things.
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
No man can discover his own talents.
