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“No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.”

“If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.”

Ifs Long Whole Use Together Term Levels Results Five Risk Talent Sweet Charity Profit Extremes Humanitarian Long Term Disadvantages

Book:Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

Source: Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

“It doesn't make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five have one great talent: they are gifted beggars. Not one of them ever ran into the room, looked up at me, and said, "I'm really happy that you're my father, and as a tangible token of my appreciation, here's a dollar.”

Children Said Father Names Differences Rooms Five Talent Dad Dollars Appreciation Ran Gifted Tangible Beggar Really Happy Tokens Great Talent

Author:Bill Cosby

“It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.”

Stories Today Actors Imagination Five Talent Directors Skills Crafts Movie Seconds Filmmaking Compelling Innovative Format

Author:Michael Apted

“My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.”

Should Said Stuff Five Happened Talent Fashion One Day Models Agents Agency Aunt Fashion Model Indie Movie

Author:Ellar Coltrane

“I think if you really put your mind to something you can do it. Five and a half years ago I couldn't stand on stage and play guitar. I didn't have enough talent as a kid to play guitar. I started really late. I hired a guitar teacher when I was in Nashville and I applied myself and stayed focused.”

Ifs Thinking Years Mind Enough Play Kids Can Do Half Five Teacher Stage Talent Late Years Ago Guitar Focused You Can Do It Nashville Half A Year

Author:Jimmy Wayne

“I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.”

Years Five Four Talent Mom Dad Singing Pops Singers Rhythm Five Years My Sister Opera Mom And Dad Five Year Olds Rhythm And Blues

Author:Carl Gardner

“Michael Gove is an incredibly talent guy and a Brexiteer. But he has been telling all of us for the last five years that he doesn't want to [be the Prime Minister] and he doesn't think he's got it in him to do it so his conversion on the road to Damascus has come pretty late.”

Thinking Want Years Has Beens Lasts Guy Five Talent Late Conversion Ministers Five Years Prime Prime Minister Last Five Years

Author:Andrew Mitchell