It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.
- Topic: Ability
- Location: Pyramid Lake
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Rochefoucauld
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
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To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable—this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
The question, 'Who ought to be boss?' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in a quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
