Quotes
Quotes about Talent
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.
It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
