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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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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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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All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.
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You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
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And it became even more interesting when we realized that we were visiting the same six or seven work centers every time. They’re not bottlenecks, but the sequence in which they perform their jobs became very important. We call them ‘capacity constraint resources,’ CCR for short.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
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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.
