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“The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.”

Littles Art Strong Talent Senses Invention Acquire Imitation Mechanic Great Talent

Book:Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species

Source: Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species

“I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.”

Ifs Knows Believe Hard Lying I Believe Can Do Born Loses Talent Hard Work Succeed I Believe In Acquire

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?”

Humans Enemy Technology Rights Talent Bears Intellectual Capitalism Property West Socialism Acquire Property Rights Intellectual Property Polar Bears

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.”

Thinking Should Talent Acquire

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.”

Love Care Hate Break Talent Dangerous Silly Acquire Labour Unnecessary Quarrels Prudence Indication Breeding Love Hate Uncommon Wanton Good Breeding

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them”

Should Able Order Social Growth Talent Development Acquire Interfere Adequate Usefulness Social Order Untalented

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change