"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

Ability, Famous, Man

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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

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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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"How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!"

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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

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"People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it."

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"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."

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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

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"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

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"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

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