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 | "A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a
sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who
succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that
department succeeded pre-eminently." | |
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Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
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| "All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an
equal opportunity to develop our talents." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at
fifty." | |
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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
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| "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that
talent to the dark place where it leads." | |
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Erica Jong
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| "Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that
are easily snapped off." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best
substitute for it." | |
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James Abram Garfield
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| "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it.
Give him a chance." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is
a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a
very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that,
be a snob." | |
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Salvador Dali
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| "Remember the parable of talents?the story of the three servants who
had received talents, five, two and one respectively? When their master
returned they all gave account of their stewardship. The first two had
doubled their capital. Each of them said so in sixteen words and their
work was pronounced, "Well done, good and faithful servant." The third
servant had accomplished absolutely nothing but his report took
forty-three words, three times as long as each of the other two reports.
Don?t be like servant number three. Make good! Don?t explain your failure!
Do the thing you are expected to do! Then you won?t have to explain why you
didn"t, couldn?t, wouldn?t, or shouldn?t. Efficiency! That is the
soul-satisfying joy of making good. Doing your work just a little better
than anyone else gives you the margin of success. Making good required no
explanation. Failure required forty-three words." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "Talent for talent"s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with
joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a
benefactor." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy
billows of the world." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you." | |
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Malcolm Cowley
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| "There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given
talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given
talent, you just touch it up once in a while." | |
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Pearl Mae Bailey
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| "There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are
of no avail." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "There is no substitute for the home. Its foundation is as ancient as
the world, and its mission has been ordained of God from the earliest
times. There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home,
and every effort made to sanctify and preserve its influence is uplifting
to those who toil and sacrifice for its establishment. There is no
happiness without service and there is no greater service than that which
converts the home into a divine institution which promotes and preserves
family life." | |
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Joseph F. Smith
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| "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its
hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." | |
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Richard David Bach
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| "They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They
ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune,
rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent
there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and
the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will
be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because
that talent wears a skirt." | |
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Shirley Chisholm
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| "We can"t achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by
making technological improvements. We can"t even buy our way to
excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More
dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate
conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn"t happen by accident
either." | |
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Price Pritchett
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| "You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like
them to go." | |
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Jeannette Rankin
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