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"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."
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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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Personal Development
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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Personal Development
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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Personal Development
"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
"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
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Personal Development
"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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Personal Development
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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Personal Development
"Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent."
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"Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."You don't seem to agree."I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person."
Philosophy
"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
Philosophy
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth
"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."
Environment
"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."
Society
"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."
War
"He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can't be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before-in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested."
Social
"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."
Music
"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."
Literature
"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."
Storytelling
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