"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."

Ability, Idealism, Loss, Old

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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

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"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."

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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

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"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children."

G. Stanley Hall, American Psychologist

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"You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited."

Willard Libby, American Scientist

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"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."

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"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."

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