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In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture,...

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Georges BizetThe Pearl Fishers: Vocal Score (French

Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...

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Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it's not an imit...

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You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, thr...

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Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you’re lucky,...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...

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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you d...

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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world f...

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Hermann HesseThe Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself int...

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While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were...

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[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the r...

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It's no good writing if God hasn't given you talent. People will just laugh.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than m...

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A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You...

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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love an...

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If you've got a talent, protect it.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresse...

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I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at ...

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...

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Okay, so anagrams. That’s one. Got any other charming talents?” she asked, and now he felt confident...

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It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent...

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His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors ac...

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unle...

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As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared t...

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The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less ta...

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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

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It takes brains not to make money,” Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regul...

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My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (...

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Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)Me plus you. (Imma tell y...

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Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can pl...

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Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for th...

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Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experienc...

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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized spor...

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Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...

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Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Y...

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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit sp...

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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing...

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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious ...

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Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before he...

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Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if ...

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The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuali...

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But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superi...

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Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The...

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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of f...

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If we're talented at music, that talent is of god.  If something makes our heart sing, that's god's ...

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Marianne WilliamsonA Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I ...

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Mark TwainAutobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison o...

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Mark TwainHow Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how ea...

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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally ob...

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You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then...

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My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, whic...

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What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation...

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Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or ...

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His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the ...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitatio...

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Nikolai GogolThe Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""Tha...

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What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecess...

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Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-tra...

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Peter SloterdijkNot Saved: Essays After Heidegger

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a s...

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To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, ...

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From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes p...

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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent f...

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The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent an...

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Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...

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A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument hand...

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Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living bein...

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One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like produc...

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Seth GodinUnleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing AT People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing thing for You.