"It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them."
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"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
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"God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless."
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"One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent."
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"I do hope having done what I did, and America having accepted me the way they did, opens the door for more global talent, which should have representation in global entertainment."
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"My only genius talent is inquisitiveness."
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"Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone."
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"Genius is talent provided with ideals."
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"God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used"
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"Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!"
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"The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less."
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"To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity."
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"You can't rely just on talent to win."
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"Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent."
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"Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession."
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"The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being"
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"Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent."
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"I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art."
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"Every talent must unfold itself in fighting."
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"The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent."
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