Motivational Quotes

Talent

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

Best Quotes about Talent

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

Brooks, Garth

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

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

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

Rourke, Mickey

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

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

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

Quinton, John

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

Erica Jong

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

10.

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

Eagle, Iron

11.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

14.

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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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Proverb, French

19.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Cicero

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Connolly, Cyril

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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Wooden, John

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

Baltasar Gracian

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Half, Robert

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Talents go by nature not by birth.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man gift will make a way for him.

Bible

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

Josh Lieb

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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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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

Huxley, Aldous

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I believe that every person is born with talent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von