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"Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?''No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen."
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"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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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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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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"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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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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Personal Development
"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"
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Personal Development
"Put the right people in the right positions to ensure their personal strengths and talents are being utilized and appreciated."
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"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
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"The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky."
Belief
"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is."
Perception
"I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.'It was my turn to laugh."
Humor
"Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies."
Truth
"I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them."
Love
"The sky was growing dangerously light when I left Lestat and made my way to the secret place, below an abandoned building where I kept the iron coffin in which I lie.This is no unusual configuration among our kind-the sad old building, my title to it, or the cellar room cut off from the world above by iron doors no mortal could independently seek to lift."
Mystery
"I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach..."
Wisdom
"I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins."
Mystery
"To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us."
Philosophy
"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."
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