“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”
Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, Author and Philosopher
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
Thomas Edison
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Aren’t these great quotes! I love the freedom they bring to become who we want to be. It’s so circular.
Even if opportunity seems on vacation, we should still develop our desires…that lead to talents…that lead to opportunity.
Thomas Edison sure had that incessantness — and aren’t we glad about that!
Oh yeah, moving into the second interest…when the first has been lost…that can be hard, but sometimes necessary. How do you do it? maybe doggedness/stubbornness/determination/not willing to give up.
Or maybe we move to a third interest and find our desires…opportunities and talents…developing in new and interesting ways.
It isn’t over yet.
Karin
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….During my last semester of Seminary (over 20 years ago) I went to the movies a lot to escape. Maybe it was just my mood one day but one of my all time favorite movie lines comes from Tom Cruise of all people in the movie Risky Business of all movies.
(excuse the language pelase):
“Sometimes you just have to say what the F*** and that creates freedom. And freedom creates opportunity”
I think unless we feel a certain sense of freedom, we might not walk through the doors of opportunity, we would be held back.
I don’t remember that quote.
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