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~ People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ~

Andrew Carnegie

~ A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. ~

Charles Horton Cooley

~ The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. ~

Robert Brustein

~ A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Most people would say the talent level is not what it's been at Kentucky. But they continue to have great years. ~

Eddie Fogler

~ It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. ~

W.H. Auden

~ Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible! ~

Wilma Scott Heide

~ Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ~

Horace

~ And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. ~

Katherine Dunn

~ Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Let the path be open to talent. ~

Napoleon

~ Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love. ~

Barbara Sher

~ Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. ~

Quintilian

~ You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you`re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. ~

Isaac Asimov

~ Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. ~

Sophia Loren

~ The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work. ~

Charles Barkley

~ As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. ~

Mary Lou Retton

~ Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ It is sad to see the demise of some of the most talented people generation after generation going in the same way. ~

Dashiell Hammett

~ I'm impressed by her tenacity. She worked hard to put things together -- and without a doubt she has talent. ~

Ron Garrett

~ Success is often not a matter of talent, but a matter of tenacity. ~

Nathaniel Bronner Jr.

~ When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Talent is not universal but it is widely spread: Give enough people the capacity to create, and inevitably gems will emerge. ~

Chris Anderson

~ Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius. It is dangerous for an army to be led by veterans; for on the other side God may place Napoleon. ~

Sri Aurobindo

~ Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal. ~

Maxwell Maltz

~ I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. ~

Stephen Jay Gould

~ I believe that every person is born with talent. ~

Maya Angelou

~ Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination. ~

John Luther

~ The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. ~

Irving Berlin

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