Quotes
Quotes about Talent
And sure th' Eternal Master found
His single talent well employ'd.
Some must be great. Great offices will have
Great talents. And God gives to every man
The virtue, temper, understanding, taste,
That lifts him into life, and lets him fall
Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.
To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents,--the tools to him that can handle them.
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.
Of science and logic he chatters,
As fine and as fast as he can;
Though I am no judge of such matters,
I'm sure he's a talented man.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.
Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive."
He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.
He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Novels pour from the presses, piling up on the reviewer's table, tumbling on to the study floor and scaring the cat. All show competence, some talent, some few very exciting talent
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
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.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." -Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
