TALENT QUOTES

quotations about talent

Talent quote

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Many times we take our talents for granted. We think because we can do something well, anyone can. Often that's not true. How can you tell when you're overlooking a skill or talent? Listen to what others say. Your strengths will capture the attention of others and draw them to you. On the other hand, when you're working in areas of weakness, few people will show interest. If others are continually praising you in a particular area, start developing it.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Leadership Gold

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Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse--always open, always full, always abundant--new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes ... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul--its gaiety or its sadness.... As with our perishable flesh ... talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

EUGENE DELACROIX

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix


Mediocre ability, well developed and properly planted, will produce a larger tree of success than will extraordinary ability, scattered or uncared for.

NATHANIEL CLARK FOWLER

Getting a Start


It is a great talent for a ruler to use the talents of men as though he possessed them.

DUKE OF TSIN

attributed, Day's Collacon


If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

THOMAS WOLFE

The Web and the Rock

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Not he deserves praise that has talents, but he that uses them.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

STEPHEN KING

Danse Macabre


Sure, the home-field is an advantage -- but so is having a lot of talent.

DAN MARINO

attributed, Gentlemen, This is a Football

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However you make your living is where your talent lies.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

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There was never an unused talent rolled up in a handkerchief yet, but when it was taken out and put into the scales, it was lighter than when it was committed to the keeping of the earth.

ALEXANDER MACLAREN

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

ROBERT BENCHLEY

attributed, Book of Humorous Quotations


Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

STEPHEN KING

Danse Macabre

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Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

RICHARD FLORIDA

attributed, The Talent Mandate


Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

ERICA JONG

New York Quarterly, No. 16, 1974

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Hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work.

AMOL SARVA

"Talent Is a Myth", Huffington Post, May 3, 2015


Talent must be viewed as the most indispensable ingredient for success, but success also depends on how that talent is managed.

ALLAN SCHWEYER

Talent Management Systems


If talent without persistence is a tragedy ... persistence without talent is a comedy. And, boy, is it a painful one.

JAMES PONIEWOZIK

"In 'Haters Back Off!' a Cringe-Worthy Star Is Born", New York Times, October 13, 2016


We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

ERIC HOFFER

The Passionate State of Mind

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The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

SMILEY BLANTON

Love or Perish

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