"If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it."
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"The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness."
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"Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it."
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"A person of genius should marry a person of character."
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"All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent."
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"If you have talent, I believe that talent will win out. In other words, if you're a good broadcaster, if you're a funny comic, you'll be heard. If you know how to do a broadcast, if you're a good newsman, if you can see an event and describe it, you're going to be heard and you're going to be seen. So there's always room. Now with cable and satellite and Internet, it's endless. You could blog, you could be your own talent."
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"The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember."
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"Talent is often a defect in character."
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"I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life."
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"Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?"
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"Mother Earth is very talented."
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"It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit."
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"Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent."
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"Precocious talents mature slowly if at all."
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"To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius."
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"Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great."
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"Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith."
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"A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life."
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"What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own."
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"Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it."
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