Motivational Quotes

Talent

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

Best Quotes about Talent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Benjamin Franklin

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Quinton, John

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No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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 man gift will make a way for him.

Bible

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Gide, Andre

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

Brenan, Gerald

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

Rourke, Mickey

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Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

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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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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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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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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Connolly, Cyril

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eagle, Iron

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Seneca

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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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Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Cicero

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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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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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Talent is only the starting point.

Berlin, Irving

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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.