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"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"	Henry James
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."	Henry Van Dyke
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."	Horace
"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
"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."	James Arthur Baldwin
"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
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck."	Kareem Abdul-Jabar
"I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."	Kathe Kolliqitz
"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."	Mark Twain
"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
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."	Maya Angelou
"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
"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
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry James	Horace
Irving	James Arthur Baldwin	Jean Anouilh
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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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