"Talent can't be taught, but it can be…" — Wallace Stegner
"Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened."
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Wallace Stegner
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108 Quotes by Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner has 108 quotes on this site.
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But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to…
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our…
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be…
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such…
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you…
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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all…
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some…
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This early piece of the morning is mine.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation…
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the…
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
— Immanuel Kant
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their…
— Nhat Hanh
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may…
— Winston Churchill
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We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
— Jack Kornfield
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by…
— Dogen
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What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha…
— Shinjo Ito
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May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace…
— Surya Das
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The soul is awakened through service.
— Erica Jong
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded…
— Nikola Tesla
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