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"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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
"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."	Warren G. Bennis
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here."	Alfred A. Montapert
"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
"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."	James Arthur Baldwin
"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
"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."	Maya Angelou
"We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism."	Frank A. Clark
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."	Erica Mann Jong
"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
"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck."	Kareem Abdul-Jabar
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."	Thomas Jefferson
"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."	Al Capp
"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates."	Sir William Alton Jones
"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
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Abraham Maslow	Albert Einstein	Alfred A. Montapert
Al Capp	Amy Grant	Baltasar Gracian
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
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller