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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."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
Explore more quotes by Henry Van Dyke
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."
"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
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