| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics." »Newt Gingrich |
| "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 |
| "talent does what it can genius does what it must." »Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
| "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." »Weinbaum |
| "Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other." »Seneca |
| "Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." »J. Petit-Senn |
| "There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent." »Unknown |
| "Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism." »Frank A. Clark |
| "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." »Conan Doyle |
| "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 |
| "Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives." »Maya Angelou |
| "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage." »Sydney Smith |
| "The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder." »Frederick W. Faber |
| "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." »Isaac Newton |
| "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "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 |
| "Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "I do not want to dieuntil I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the see that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown." »Kathe Kollwitz |
| "talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." »Johann von Goethe |
| "talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." »John Wooden |
| "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 |
| "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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