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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"
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"I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much."
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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

"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."
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"It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think."
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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."
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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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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will get guaranteed success."
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"The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest."
Fate

"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety."
Confidence

"Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?"
Wisdom

"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he."
Intelligence

"The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated."
Education

"A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
Mystery

"Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?"
Community

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."
Fact

"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
Books

"Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."
Memory
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