"Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent."

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Irving Berlin

#Talent Quotes #Starting Quotes

“Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.”
“For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.”
“One thing about being a children's poet or a versifier, is that there is a large market for your wares. These things really made the rounds. I would meet people and they'd quote my poems to me. It's great.”
“I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.”
“A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.”
“Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.”
“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
“In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.”

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