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“For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.”

People Ifs Men May Art Talent Creatures Travel Remains Deny Superiors Miserable Mediocre Art And Science

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!”

Ifs War Chance Deals Risk Talent Communication Battle Determine Superiors Magazines Midst Reserves Beaten Woe Adversaries

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“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

“It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.”

Men United Talent Superiors Unfortunate Superior Man

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.”

“Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.”

Men World Knowledge Talent Court Shining Rate Busy Superiors Second Rate

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.”

“I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.”

Kind Known Talent Equal Bird Superiors Producers Australia Pencils Handful Mime

Author:Ben Hecht

“Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.”

Political Virtue Democracy Talent Republican Demand Superiors

Author:Simon Bolivar

“The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of its principals that must have averaged 160. Smart people aren't exempt from professional disasters from overconfidence. Often, they just run aground in the more difficult voyages they choose, relying on their self-appraisals that they have superior talents and methods.”