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"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."
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Personal Development
"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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Personal Development
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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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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Personal Development
"He has tongue of a writer."
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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
"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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Personal Development
"You will only succeed in the field where your gift is."
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Personal Development
"Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him."
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"A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people."
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"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
"Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful."
People
"It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department."
Nature
"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."
Politics
"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 key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."
Strength
"A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict."
Inequality
"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general."
Military
"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."
Being
"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
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