"Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go."

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Source : Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.79, Oxford University Press

Benjamin Moser

#Different Quotes #Talent Quotes #Vocation Quotes

“Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.”

Source : Ken Follett (2012). “Winter of the World”, p.41, Pan Macmillan
“Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.”
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
“Accept your feelings. Know your purpose. And do what needs to be done.”
“I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.”
“All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.”
“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.”
“I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.”

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