Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
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I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.
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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
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I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'
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There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.
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You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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It's an amazing feeling to have, I find it very hard to believe.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
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She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.
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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
