A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.
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 Charles Horton Cooley
To get away from one's working environment is; in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
