Talent
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Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be.
Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration (1998)
Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write one page, it writes three hundred
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent
As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of providence in some way unknown to us. They rise where they are least expected. They fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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