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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"talent does what it can genius does what it must." »Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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"agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The
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"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." »Weinbaum
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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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"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." »J. Petit-Senn
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"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." »John Wooden
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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." »Conan Doyle
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"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives." »Maya Angelou
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"We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism." »Frank A. Clark
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"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage." »Sydney Smith
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"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
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"I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway
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"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me." »Erma Bombeck
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"Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." »Isaac Newton
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