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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"	Benjamin Franklin
"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams."	Amy Grant
"The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."	Eric Hoffer
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."	Horace
"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"	Henry James
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."	Thomas Jefferson
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."	Thomas Jefferson
"No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride." [on managing talented people]"	Eric J. Joiner, Jr.
"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates."	Sir William Alton Jones
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."	Erica Mann Jong
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."	Erica Mann Jong
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."	Kathe Kolliqitz
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Ernest Miller Hemingway	Frank A. Clark	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry James	Horace
Irving	James Arthur Baldwin	Jean Anouilh
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John W(illiam) Gardner
Kareem Abdul-Jabar	Kathe Kolliqitz	Mark Twain
Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maya Angelou	Pearl Bailey
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Isaac Newton	Sir William Alton Jones	Thomas Jefferson
Warren G. Bennis	Wystan Hugh Auden	(John) Calvin Coolidge
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller