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“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.”

Men Long Made Remember Names Stars Loses Gone Talent Directors Silent Finished Screens Producers Titles Great Talent

Author:Ernst Lubitsch

“Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.”

Men Important Universe Sides Talent Materials Concepts Structure Solar System Dogmatic Origin Of Man

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.”

Ifs Men Heart Strong Decision Perfect Talent Ambition Combination Sensitive Strong Man Perfect Combination

Author:Meaghan Rath

“There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.”

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Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.”

Men Art Left Born Talent Masters

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.”

Thinking Men Two Lasts Artist Talent Painting Painter Muse Brushes Trios

Author:Robert Breault

“The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's property, because they are accomplishing something for him, slothful and shameful though it be. And what is a lost soul? Is it not one that God cannot use, or one that cannot use God? Trustless, prayerless, fruitless, loveless--is it not so far lost? So may a man have a soul that is lost and be dead while he lives.”

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Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.”

Men World Needs Doe Real Dies Heaven Talent Real Talent

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg