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“In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.”

War Certain Talent Judging Depends Difficulty Superiors Conquer Resolution Arrangements

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.”

Thinking Way Ability Numbers Creativity Talent Depends Skills Capacity Including Dry Spells New Ways Technical Skills

Author:Teresa Amabile

“Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.”

Humans May Doe Two Ideas Sports Half Talent Football Depends Setting Settings Fearless Soccer Analysis Avoiding Other Half One Half Coexist Flair

Author:Edward Smith

“What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.”

Ifs Men Doe Ideas Wealth Knowing Talent Depends Draws Prize Not Knowing

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?”

Source: Essays, First and Second Series

“Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.”

Talent Depends Industry Genius Capacity Application Involuntary

Author:William Hazlitt

“Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.”

Persons Born Talent Depends Discovering

Author:Isabel Allende

“Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.”

Source: The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington

“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

“I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.”

People Hard Happens Can Do Born Talent Willing Depends Someday

Author:Bill Gates

“Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but really the soul of it is Edward Norton talent. You write these characters when you write a movie, and all you can hope for or depend on is that your actors will elevate the material.”

Writing Soul Character Actors Challenges Talent Materials Depends Green Screens Grass Leaves Of Grass

Author:Edward Norton

“Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.”

Way Interesting Talent Depends Prose

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger and wiser than I am. I don't do it on my own. God is my strength. He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.”

Way Needs Helping Body Light Faces Fall My Own Talent Depends Bigger Stronger Forgiving Help Me Wiser Forgive Me When Things Go Wrong

Author:Hank Aaron