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"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck."	Kareem Abdul-Jabar
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."	Maya Angelou
"Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance."	Jean Anouilh
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"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."	Pearl Bailey
"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."	James Arthur Baldwin
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."	Warren G. Bennis
"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."	Irving
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running."	Mary Ingraham Bunting
"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."	Al Capp
"We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism."	Frank A. Clark
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."	(John) Calvin Coolidge
"Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius."	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."	Albert Einstein
"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
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Benjamin Franklin	Edgar Lee Masters	Erica Mann Jong
Eric Hoffer	Eric J. Joiner, Jr.	Erma Louise Bombeck
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Frank A. Clark	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry James	Horace
Irving	James Arthur Baldwin	Jean Anouilh
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John W(illiam) Gardner
Kareem Abdul-Jabar	Kathe Kolliqitz	Mark Twain
Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maya Angelou	Pearl Bailey
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Isaac Newton	Sir William Alton Jones	Thomas Jefferson
Warren G. Bennis	Wystan Hugh Auden	(John) Calvin Coolidge
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