talent

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

4.

Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.

- Claudius

5.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.

- Bolitho, William

6.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

- Seneca

7.

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.

- Wendte, C. W.

8.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

- Brown, Les

9.

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

- Robert Ludlum

10.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

- Macaulay, Thomas B.

11.

However great a man’s natural talent May be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12.

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

13.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Coolidge, Calvin

14.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

15.

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

- Reverend Oliver G. Wilson

16.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

- Jean Anouilh

17.

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

- Hoagland, Edward

18.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

- Williams, Bern

19.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

- Kennedy, John F.

20.

Brevity is the sister of talent.

- Anton Chekhov