Louisa May Alcott Quotes About Talent
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I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
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We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!
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All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
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Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
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