What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
Recorded Tenley Albright said elsewhere, not written here
But I couldn’t let myself feel that way until it was all right to. And that’s part of the surgical mind too, addressing what you need to, and you know you can do, and postponing how you feel about it, thinking only of the patient and what you need to do.

Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 21 June 1991 source ↗

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Fei-Fei Li Professor of computer science at Stanford University; creator of ImageNet
Being a scientist is about resilience because science is exploring the unknown, just as an immigrant is exploring the unknown. In both, you are on an uncertain journey and you have to find your own North Star.
Recorded Stanford HAI interview marking publication of The Worlds I See, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI) source ↗
Tanni Grey-Thompson British wheelchair racer, 1988–2007; member of the House of Lords
I love training. It's not just about the competing. I had an amount of natural talent – you need that to go so far – but, actually, what I had, I think, is an ability to make myself work hard, to do the things I didn't like doing, to do the things that I wasn't so good at.
Recorded Oral history interview, People's Collection Wales, 1 January 2015 source ↗

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Question What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself? Time & hindsight
And I said, “You know, it does sound silly, and it does sound as if I’m doing it just for my own fun.” And she said, “You have an obligation to do the best you can with whatever you’ve got. And if you like to do a sport, and you can do part of it well, that’s a way of expressing what God gave you.”
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 21 June 1991 source ↗

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