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• Lew Hunter:

  We all have talent. How we use it and don't use it is what the game is about in writing, and in life itself.

• Howard Gardner:

  But I'm convinced that in 50 or 100 years, we will laugh at any teacher who thinks there's only one way to teach something.

• Henry Ford:

  The question, "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking, "Who out to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

• Woodrow Wilson:

  I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

• Noel Coward:

  Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

• Claude Bernard:

  Art is I; science is we.

• Don Maitz:

  90% of anyone's Talent in any kind of profession is persistence.

• Kurt Vonnegut:

  No matter what a young person thinks he or she is really hot stuff at doing, he or she is sooner or later going to run into somebody in the same field who will cut him or her a new asshole, so to speak.

• Kimon Nicolaïdes:

  I never concern myself with how much talent my students have. I couldn't say to anyone in the beginning, 'You have no talent.' I believe that nature is lavish with talent just as it is with acorns--but not all acorns become oaks. Talent is something that develops, or appears, as you work.

• John Irving:

  This was a concept of myself that I'd been lacking. I was an underdog; therefore, I had to control the pace--of everything. This was more than I learned in English 4W, but the concept was applicable to my Creative Writing--and to all my schoolwork, too. If my classmates could read our history assignment in an hour, I allowed myself two or three. If I couldn't learn to spell, I would keep a list of all my most frequently misspelled words--and I kept the list with me; I had it handy even for unannounced quizzes. Most of all, I rewrote everything; first drafts were like the first time you tried a new takedown--you needed to drill it, over and over again, before you even dreamed of trying it in a match. I began to take my lack of talent seriously.

• Abraham Maslow:

  You judge a person like you judge an apple tree, by the fruit it produces.

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