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Friday, 4 July 2008
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"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home." (Everett, Edward - Home)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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Browse Quotations about Talent

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use.
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.


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