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"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
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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

"Your gift is what you were created to be."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."
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"Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only."
Skill


"Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power."
Power


"The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."
Strength


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


"The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets."
Talent


"The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians."
Business


"Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves."
People


"A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict."
Inequality


"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."
Religion


"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."
Design
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