#talents

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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I am no more humble than my talents require. ↗

— Oscar Levant

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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home. ↗

— Laura Linney

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Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

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As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

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If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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