Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?
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Benjamin Franklin
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Anonymous
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Mel Brooks
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
More Quotes By G.H. Hardy
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than their, it is because they are made with ideas.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of poems. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
