"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."

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Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)

Joshua Reynolds

#Talent Quotes #Ability Quotes #Deficiency Quotes

“[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler].... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.”

Source : "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance". "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance" by James Otis Jr., 1761.
“Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.”
“Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.”
“Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.”
“What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.”
“Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.”
“When you say, 'I am a Christian,' you are saying, 'I am mashiach,' in the Hebrew. I am a little messiah walking on earth, in other words. That is a shocking revelation. ...May I say it like this? You are a little god on earth running around”
“And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.”

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