My ability to connect with people. I think I can see people and they feel it.
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What is something you were told by a parent, teacher, or mentor that you still repeat to yourself?
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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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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.
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View profile →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.”
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Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 21 June 1991
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