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"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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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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"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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"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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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"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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"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"
Faith


"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."
Peace


"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
Teaching


"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."
Mortality


"However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet."
Self-Awareness


"You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan."
Journey


"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."
Knowledge


"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
Aging


"It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'."
Spiritual


"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."
Psychology
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