It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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Respect human talent, respond to genius, recognize reality, admire truth and beauty, realize the meaning of the rare flower Reason.
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There are two kinds of talents, man made talent and God given talent. With man made talent you have to work very hard. With God given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
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If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
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Where talent is a dwarf, self esteem is a giant.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.
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'Tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new Reformation.
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We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent criticism.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
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I do not want to dieuntil I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the see that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
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