Motivational Quotes

Talent

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.

Best Quotes about Talent

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

Baltasar Gracian

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.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Wooden, John

Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

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

Half, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I believe that every person is born with talent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Cicero

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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

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

Eagle, Iron

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

Quinton, John

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Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rourke, Mickey

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

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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 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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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

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A man gift will make a way for him.

Bible

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

Brenan, Gerald

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Talents go by nature not by birth.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Renard, Jules