"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Ability, Exercise, Learning, Writing

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited."

Willard Libby, American Scientist

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"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be."

Jack Brymer, British Musician

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"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself."

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"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."

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"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."

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"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."

Research

"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view."

Science

"In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment."

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"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

Animals

"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background."

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"The best project is one that asks a novel question."

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"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."

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