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• 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 Jung

  Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

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• Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Doe, Abundance, Conscious

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Power, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

  Stevie Wonder

  Work, Rock N Roll

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• 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

  Inspirational, Education, Determination

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• There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

  Winslow Homer

  Art, Work, Way

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• We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

  Frank A. Clark

  Criticism, Different, Generous

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• To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace.

  Albert Lutuli

  War, Men, Skills

  "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.

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• The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Blessing, Born, Pursuit

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• Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.

  Paul Gauguin

  Believe, Vanity, Littles

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• We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Unique, Use, Patterns

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• Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

  Frank Gehry

  Kind, Persons

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• My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.

  Jennifer Hudson

  People, Focus, Way

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.25, Penguin

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• Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

  Charles Rollin

  Men, Essence, Giving

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• You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.

  Michelangelo

  Falling In Love, Men, Giving

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• Collectively, we have all it takes to create a just and peaceful world, but we must work together and share our talents. We all need one another to find happiness within ourselves and within the world.

  Craig Kielburger

  Justice, Peaceful, Working Together

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspiring, Graduation, Self Esteem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Writing, Use

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

  William Bernbach

  Motivational, Positive, Creativity

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• 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

  Freedom, Men, Space

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• Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Strength, Views, Light

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Work, Book

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Matter, Self Help

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• I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

  John Wooden

  Life, Sportsmanship, Experience

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.12, McGraw-Hill Professional

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