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“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
Oscar Wilde
“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
Albert Einstein
“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.”
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.”
Erma Bombeck
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
Erica Jong
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
Maya Angelou
“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent”
Mark Twain
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
Calvin Coolidge
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