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"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."
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"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent."
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"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
Libraries
"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."
American
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
Progress
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
Flattery
"When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so."
Acquaintance
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
Man
"God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs."
God
"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
Animals
"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
Wisdom
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