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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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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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Personal Development
"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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Personal Development
"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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Personal Development
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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Personal Development
"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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Personal Development
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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Personal Development
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."
Education
"The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest."
Talent
"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly."
Nothing
"As between mileage and experience choose experience."
Experience
"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality."
Food
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
Thinking
"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."
Work
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
Answers
"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
Experience
"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
Reading
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