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"A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent"

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Logan Pearsall Smith

#Talent Quotes #Mediocre Quotes

  • “It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.”

  • “I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.”

  • “Religion dies hard in the Irish.”

  • “The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.”

  • “I spill water on myself all the time at nice restaurants. I've run into poles and knocked myself out.”

  • “My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”

  • “Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.”

    Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press

  • “You can't assert an answer just because it's not something else.”

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