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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."

"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

"They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them."

"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."

"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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"Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action."


"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."


"To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse."


"As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out."


"Indeed, if our ancestors of millions of years ago hadn't learned how to care for one another and hunt in packs, they'd all have ended up being eaten by leopards."


"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."


"It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous."


"But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization."


"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."


"That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar."
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