"I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it."

-- Hazel Scott

#World Quotes #Responsible Quotes #Gifted Quotes

“Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.”

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“Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.”
“Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.”
“He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.”
“There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.”
“Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.”

Source : "Nuremberg: The War Crimes Trial". Book by Richard Norton-Taylor, Nicolas Kent, 1997.
“You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.”
“We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.”

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