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"There are two kinds of talents, 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." »Pearl Bailey
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"If a man has 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 has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know." »Thomas Wolfe
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"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." »Eric Hoffer
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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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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads." »Erica Jong
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"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads." »Erica Jong
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"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value," »Walt Whitman
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"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there." »Irving
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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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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office." »H. L. Mencken
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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office." »H.L. Mencken
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"Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it." »Johnson
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"He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward)." »Ellen Karsh
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"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Nothing in the world will take away persistence. talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man 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." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent." »William Shakespeare
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"Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent." »William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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 slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." »Calvin Coolidge
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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 slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." »Calvin Coolidge
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"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul." »Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
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"You have to have a talent for having talent." »Ruth Gordon
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"talent does what it can genius does what it must." »Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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"The talent is in the choices." »Robert De Niro
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"talent does what it can, Genius does what it must." »Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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"Genius is talent provided with ideals." »William Somerset Maugham
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"talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you." »Malcolm Cowley
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"There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent." »Unknown
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"Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other." »Seneca
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"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." »Weinbaum
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