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Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.Mustafa Saifuddin
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There's no difficulty that love cannot conquer... no door love cannot open... No wall enough love will not bring down... only if we could love enough When love, skill, a talent or gift work together... we create a masterpiece Love someone with your skill, your talent or our gift... Make someone's life easier... Make someone happy today... Create your masterpiece todayVal Uchendu
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Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?Alex Morritt
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If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.Matshona Dhliwayo
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When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.Matshona Dhliwayo
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You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you seek success, serve others. If you seek immortality give. Serve or give your time, skills, talent or gift. In the end, what you leave behind are trails of the lives you changed and the hearts you touched.Val Uchendu
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When you apply that gift you possess that comes so easily to you and can be used anywhere, anytime to help someone else; maybe your family, your community, your city, state, country or the world in general... that is your PURPOSE.Val Uchendu
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If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.Matshona Dhliwayo
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When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A hunter’s meal is in proportion to his skill.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.Matshona Dhliwayo
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You become the master of what you master.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Excellence is the key that opens successes' door.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.Matshona Dhliwayo
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An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Today’s amateurs are tomorrow’s champions.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.Matshona Dhliwayo
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If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Geniuses’ steps take you higher than talent’s leaps.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.Matshona Dhliwayo
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A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Genius is talent set on fire.Matshona Dhliwayo
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How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The cream rises to the top, even if sour.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The Excellence Manifesto #1I pledge myself to patience. I pledge myself to boldness. I pledge myself to kindness. I pledge myself to prudence. I pledge myself to cheerfulness. I pledge myself to genuineness. I pledge myself to goodness. I commit to skilfulness. I commit to diligence. I commit to resourcefulness. I commit to excellence. I commit to perseverance. I commit to brilliance. I commit to transcendence.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.Matshona Dhliwayo
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As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.Matshona Dhliwayo
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Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.Matshona Dhliwayo
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The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.Kilroy J. Oldster