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 All the intelligence and TALENT in the world can’t make a
singer. The voice is a mild thing. It can’t be bred in
captivity.
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Constant practice often excels even TALENT. | Cicero |
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Discipline is the refining fire by which TALENT becomes
ability. | Roy L. Smith |
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Doing easily what others find difficult is TALENT; doing
what is impossible to TALENT is genius. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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Everyone has TALENT. What is rare is the courage to
follow the TALENT to the dark place where it leads. | Erica Jong |
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If a man has TALENT and cannot use it, he has failed. If he
has TALENT and uses 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 won a satisfaction
and a triumph f | Thomas Wolfe |
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no TALENT for
writing, but couldn’t give it up because by that time I was
too famous. | Robert Benchley |
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Men of TALENT are men for occasions. | William Hazlitt |
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Modesty is the clothing of TALENT. | Pierre Veron |
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. TALENT will not; nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with TALENT. Genius will not; the world is full
of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The
p | Calvin Coolidge |
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Success depends upon a person’s getting along with
some people and ahead of them. Success in life is a
matter of not so much of TALENT or opportunity as of
concentration and perseverance. | C.W. Bendte |
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TALENT is developed in retirement : character is formed
in the rush of the world. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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TALENT is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the
stormy billows of the world. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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TALENTs differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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That on TALENT which is death to hide. | Milton |
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