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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
Explore more quotes by Carl Sandburg
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
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