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I
believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand
electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a
lamp, keep a heart pump going,
light a
cathedral, or you can
electrocute a person with it.
Electricity will do all
that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that.
I believe every
person is
born with talent.
Maya Angelou
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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given
talent.
With man-made talent you have to work very hard.
With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a
while.
Pearl Bailey
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Ordinary
people think that talent must be always on its own level and
that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and
refreshed, ready
to draw from the same storehouse -- always
open, always full, always
abundant -- new treasures that it
will heap up on those of the day before;
such people are
unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent
has
its increase and decrease, and that independently of the
career it takes,
like everything that breathes... it
undergoes all the accidents of health,
of sickness, and of
the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness.
As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly
to keep guard
over itself, to combat, and to keep
perpetually on the alert amid the
obstacles that witness the
exercise of its singular power.
Eugene Delacroix
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Talent alone cannot make a writer.
There must be a man behind the
book; a
personality
which, by birth and quality, is pledged
to the doctrines there set
forth, and which exists
to see
and state things so, and not otherwise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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