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“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess”
Mark Twain
“I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no”
Maya Angelou
“Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.”
Roy L. Smith
“All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.”
Zig Ziglar
“In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.”
Tom Brady
“Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life”
Oscar Wilde
“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”
Carl Gustav Jung