“The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used.”
We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to suit them--but it's foolishly naive to expect wolves to obey."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
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“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”
Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet
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“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.”
Neal Stephenson book Quicksilver
Source: Quicksilver
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
The Zookeeper's Wife (2008)
Context: I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
“Greatness is often born of the passionate dance between a rare talent and a noble purpose.”
Nicholas Lore (1944) American social scientist
The Pathfinder (1998)
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Variant: God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Source: The Kite Runner
“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic