Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.
Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
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