Dynamics
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence. (Baltasar Gracian)
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. (La Rochefoucauld)
There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art-lessness. (Piet Hein)
The greatest cunning is to have none at all. (Carl Sandburg)
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. (Henri Frédéric Amiel)
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. (Francis Bacon)
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. (Francis Bacon)
What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases - when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is finery; finery, too, is a hiding place. (Nietzsche)
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. (Paul Tillich)