Wise Words Wednesdays: Will Smith

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Takeaway quotes:

• "Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive, God-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste.  It is something that truly exists in all of us."
• "Talent you have naturally.  Skill is only develop by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft."
• "I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented.  Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic."
• "The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I am not afraid to die on a treadmill.  You might have more talent than me.  You might be smarter than me.  But if we get on a treadmill together, there are two things:  You're getting off first, or I'm going to die.  It is really that simple."
• "You don't set out to build a wall... You say, "I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid," and you do that every single day and soon you have a wall."
• "If you are not making someone else's life better then you're wasting your time."
• "The first step before anyone else believes it is you have to believe it."
• "Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity."

Expect Greatness.

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