Character protects your talent
I’m reading Talent is Never Enough by John Maxwell at the moment and the chapter on how character protects our talent has a couple of great quotes I thought I’d share:
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.” - Henri Frederik Amiel, Swiss philosopher
“No man can for any considerable time wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist
“People are set up to fail if they envision what they want to do before they figure out the kind of person they should be.” - John Maxwell/Ruth Barton
I love that first quote in particular. So true.
What do you think?
June 1st, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Hey Sam,
Those are great quotes, but that last one rings the most true for me. I have seen it play out far too many times in the last year.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Maxwell is a good read, I was thinking about some of his lessons today.
His thoughts are ring true because it is who we are on the inside that ultimately governs what we do. For example a person who is generous gives and a person who is greedy takes.
A wise person once told that there are a lot of good and competent people in the world and very few wise and good people and that it is better to be the latter.
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