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| Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. (Laurence J. Peter The Peter Principle) |
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| The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. (Tom Lehrer) |
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| Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. (Laurence J. Peter) |
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| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thoreau) |
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| Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Cicero) |
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| You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. (Rosalynn Carter) |
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| Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. (Henry Van Dyke) |
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| Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. (Seneca) |
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| Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. (Sydney Smith) |
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| If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. (Brendan Francis) |
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| Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? (Benjamin Franklin) |
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| Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. (Baltasar Gracian) |
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| Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. (Erica Jong) |
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| The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. (Laurence J. Peter) |
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| Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. (Baltasar Gracian) |
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| Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. (Sophia Loren) |
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| The less their ability, the more their conceit. (Ahad HaAm) |
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| It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) |
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| Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. (Malcolm Forbes) |
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| Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. (Paul Graham) |
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| Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." (Paul Graham) |
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