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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.    »  Alfred Tennyson (1851)

Do you want to learn about cultivating success? Read this collection of classic, timeless quotations about human ability, capability and potential.  Classic Quotations About Ability, Capability, and Human Potential Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty. — A. Maclaren Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are the smoothest. — Jean Paul Richter What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline. — H. P. Liddon The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men get into the round holes. — Sydney Smith There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability. — Elbert Hubbard We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable. — T. ...

1st June 1996 — Actor Tom Holland was born in London.  2nd June 1941 — Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Wattswas born in London.  3rd June 1986 — Tennis legend Rafael Nadal was born in Manacor, Spain.  4th June 2004 — Actress and singer Mackenzie Ziegler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  5th June 1971 — Actor Mark Wahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts.  6th June 1963 — Actor Jason Isaacs, who portrayed Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter series, was born in Liverpool.  7th June 1958 — Singer Prince was born as Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis, Minnesota.   

 As the first coffee plantations began to be established in the Yemeni highlands in the 15th century AD, the port city of Mocha implemented a fierce protectionist strategy to solidify their monopoly on the supply of coffee. Coffee beans were harvested in the mountainous inland regions and transported several hundred kilometres to Mocha by camel. This meant that most people only ever saw the beans and didn’t know what the actual coffee plants looked like. Anyone caught trying to smuggle live coffee plants out of the country was severely punished – in some cases executed! On top of this, the city imams mandated that all exported beans were boiled or partially roasted to kill the viability of the seeds. During this period, coffee was primarily exported to the expanding Ottoman Empire – including Mecca, Cairo, and Istanbul – but it was also exported to Europe in small quantities. The word “Mocha” became synonymous with coffee itself; a legacy that survives today in the name “mocaccino”...

25th May 1939 — Actor Ian McKellen , who portrayed Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit , was born in Burnley, England.  26th May 1907 — Western movie star John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa.  27th May 1975 — Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was born in Clavering, England.  28th May 1968 — Pop singer Kylie Minogue was born in Melbourne.  29th May 1917 — John F. Kennedy , the 35th President of the United States, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.  30th May 1971 — Singer and actor Idina Menzel , who voiced Elsa in Frozen , was born in Manhattan, New York City.  31st May 1930 — Western movie star Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California. 

 In 1989, the sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term “Third Place” to describe public environments separate from our usual locations of home (the “First Place”) and work (the “Second Place”). It is a place where you go to set aside your worries and cares, and simply enjoy the company of those around you. Conversation is the main activity and the mood is light-hearted. Traditional examples include coffee shops, pubs, libraries, churches and parks. But has today’s post-pandemic, hyper-digital world killed our “Third Places”?  We already blur the line between First and Second Places — working from home one day; and almost living out of our office the next. Everything becomes dollar signs and cost-benefit analyses, and we have no time for the few Third Places that remain. We use noise-cancelling headphones to turn cafés into mobile offices. We order “grab-and-go” coffees to squeeze just a few more minutes of work into our day.  My challenge to you is: take just five minute...