But to live without love is to starve the spirit to death. Anyone can do anything if they want to badly enough, and they are willing to work hard enough. Lack of commitment is a greater obstacle to accomplishment than lack of talent. Throughout my lifetime intelligence has been measured erroneously on a single linear scale of ability to manipulate abstract symbols. We are as yet unaware of the almost infinite varieties of intelligence, and we therefore ignore some of its most useful manifestations.
Talent is intelligence committed to a purpose.
To be alive and awake is to be learning. The substance being learned is determined by the individual not by the teacher. Most people change their occupation many times in a lifetime. The purpose of education is therefore to prepare people for change rather than to train them for a single profession. An uneducated person is one who is unaware of what he or she does not know.