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“I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled. In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.”

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Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.”

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Author:Raekwon

“I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.”

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Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.”

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Book:Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world

Source: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world

“For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.”

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Book:The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.”

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Author:Reid Hoffman

“It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.”