Motivational Quotes

Talent

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

Best Quotes about Talent

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Talent works, genius creates.

Schumann, Robert

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

Eagle, Iron

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Ritt, Martin

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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Talent is only the starting point.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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

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Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renard, Jules

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Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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 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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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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It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Talents go by nature not by birth.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Cicero

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brenan, Gerald

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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rourke, Mickey

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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