Motivational Quotes

Talent

The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Talent

Talent works, genius creates.

Schumann, Robert

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Alcott, Louisa May

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

Josh Lieb

Talent is only the starting point.

Berlin, Irving

Miller, Henry

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

Baltasar Gracian

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles.

Scargill, W. P.

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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

Renard, Jules

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

Brenan, Gerald

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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Brendan Francis

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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Hagen, Uta

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

Rourke, Mickey

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Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Meltzer, Bernard

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It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

Auden, W. H.

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I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

Ritt, Martin

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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Connolly, Cyril

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

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Talents go by nature not by birth.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

Brooks, Garth

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It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Mark Twain

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me..

Bombeck, Erma

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Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

Sarton, May

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I believe that every person is born with talent.

Angelou, Maya

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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Half, Robert

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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.

Proverb, French

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God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use.

Eagle, Iron

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Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

Hoffman, Dustin