Quotes 121 till 140 of 193.
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Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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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.
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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.
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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
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Talent is only the starting point.
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Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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Talent works, genius creates.
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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
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