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- Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
- Brendan Francis
- Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
- Thomas J. Watson
- Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
- Henry George (1839 - 1897)
- Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
- Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael
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