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Talent

«A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend.»
«Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.»
Author: Erica Jong | About: Talent | Keywords: leads, rare, talent, The Dark
«A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.»
Author: Gore Vidal | About: Talent | Keywords: articulate, articulated, articulating, drama
«Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.»
«Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?»
Author: Nelson Mandela (Statesman) | About: Self-esteem, Talent | Keywords: endurance
«Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.»
«Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.»
«A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.»
«Everyone may speak truly, but to speak logically, prudently, and adequately is a talent few possess.»
«Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Talent | Keywords: vocation

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