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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.


Henri-Fréderic Amiel

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible with talent is genius.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... ...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I...
ANN RINALDI When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you
MALCOLM COWLEY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of you...
PAU (PABLO) CASALS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you d...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
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It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Magic is not doing the impossible. It's about doing what seems impossible.
MANDAR GOGATE Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON They've got a lot of weapons; they're very difficult to guard. What they're doing, running through t...
DAVE DAVIS It doesn’t always feel right when we do what is right.
TERENCE T. GORSKI Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have u...
C. JOYBELL C. Genius is talent provided with ideals.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Genius is talent set on fire.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
CJ HECK What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
BERN WILLIAMS Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
JANET FLANNER Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossibl...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
WAYNE DYER He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when...
TAHEREH MAFI In doing what is necessary you sometimes end up doing the impossible.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
HENRY VAN DYKE Genius is talent set on fire by courage
HENRY VAN DYKE Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
ANONYMOUS Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA Love. What is it truly? Love is a spiritual state, an intangible, often insatiable need to put one's...
BELLA VESPIRA What is love?
It's not empathy, nor kindness.
Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS What is the essence of networking? I would say first collecting the dots and then connecting the dot...
SIMCHA GLUCK What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
ROALD DAHL Talent does whatever it wants to do.... Genius does only what it can.
EUGENE DELACROIX God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
ANNA PAVLOVA Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do w...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do w...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY When will we realise what we are doing??
DEYTH BANGER Love ? Love is when you are ready to do every possible and positive thing for someone,
SID I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
MARTIN RITT What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the r...
ITALO CALVINO I love doing it, and I've been pretty good at doing it. I look forward to going back to doing what t...
BILL JANKLOW What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire se ressembler. Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire être pareils, se conduire co...
JUSTINE LéVY Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you d...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE One work of genius is better than a thousand works of talent.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

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HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL You would oppose law to socialism. But it is the law which socialism invokes. It aspires to legal, n...
FR Each of us has a natural right -- from God to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. Thes...
FR If goods don t cross borders, armies will.
FR But how is...legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons wh...
FR Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybo...
FR Life, faculties, production- in other words, individuality, liberty, property- this is man. And in s...
FR If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper...
When people have learned this lesson, everyo...
FR We always compare our labor with its results. We do not devote more effort to a given task if we can...
FR We've negotiated in good faith to this point. We'll continue to do so.
DERIC LADNIER He'll play third base. There's no thought process in putting him at another position. I think he's g...
DERIC LADNIER We got an exceptional kid.
DERIC LADNIER He'll play third base. There's no thought process of playing him in another position.
DERIC LADNIER He's a highly skilled player. Obviously, his credentials speak for themselves. We just need to get h...
DERIC LADNIER He enrolled in school as a contingency plan.
DERIC LADNIER Negotiations will continue to go on like they have.
DERIC LADNIER We think everybody is pretty aware as to who the better pitchers are. The publications, I think, hav...
DERIC LADNIER Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
AMIEL Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
AMIEL Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
FR. JEROME CUMMINGS For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always s...
FR. ALFRED D'SOUZA Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never t...
FR. JEROME CUMMINGS Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
FR. JEROME CUMMINGS A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
FR. JEROME CUMMINGS There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
FR. JEROME CUMMINGS Honesty, without gentleness, is nothing but brutality ... Gentleness, without honesty, is nothing bu...
FR. EMMERICH VOGT I had always felt close to the workers’ movement but I chose to stay loyal to the Church. It wasn�...
FR. ANġ SEYCHELL