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Quotes about Talent


The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

W. Alton Jones

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews; The rage but not the talent to abuse.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow--by the tilt of the social landscape.

Eric Hoffer

When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems—even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.

LaVell Edwards

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Kareem Abdul-jabbar

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.

William Gillmore Simms

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.

William Gillmore Simms

A career is born in public—talent in privacy.

Marilyn Monroe

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.

W. H. Auden

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

Isaac Stern

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Charles Horton Cooley

Talent works, genius creates.

Robert Schumann

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Zig Ziglar

I do not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Käthe Kollwitz

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

William Bernbach

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

Mickey Rourke

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Mickey Proverb

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Owen Meredith

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.

Christiane Collange

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

French Proverb

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Henri-Fréderic Amiel

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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