Special Talents Quotes

• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Happiness, Using Your Talents

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• History is the same thing over and over again.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Temporary Insanity, Bores You

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Awe And Wonder

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

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• Creativity is not the possession of some special talent.
  It’s about the willingness to play.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Play, Special

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• Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

  Alan King

  Sex, Fun, Food

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• His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings." "Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um..." Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!" "Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly. Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ... ... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."

  James Patterson

  Cheer, Voice, Nudge Nudge

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• A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Successful, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Essays”, p.287, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unique, Giving, Special

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.65, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  Warren Beatty

  Acting, Special, Genius

  "Celebrities Who Have NEVER Been Divorced" by Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2015.

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• Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Book, Writing, Special

  "Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer". Book by Roy Peter Clark, January 10, 2008.

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• Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

  Simon T. Bailey

  People, Special, Genius

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• [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

  John Dewey

  School, Skills, Competition

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• Little details have special talents in creating big problems!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Creating, Special, Details

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• It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Special, Shadow

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• It`s always been the same for me. I`ve always enjoyed acting, and I really love good actors; they`re such unique characters. I wish I could tell stories well, or tell a joke. Any time someone can do that it`s so satisfying. Sean Penn, for instance, is a really good actor, and he can tell a good joke or story. But it`s hard to do. Most actors have special talents that make them attractive, but they`re often odd characters.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Unique, Acting

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• Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Two, Special

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• Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.

  Michael Carrick

  Play, Special, Talent

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• The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Office, Political

  "Charting the Candidates '72". Book by Ronald Van Doren, p. 7, 1972.

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• I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Girl, Night, People

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• In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers.

  Karl Albrecht

  Team, Eye, Organization

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