Quotes of Talent - somelinesforyou

“ Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. ”

- Brendan Francis

“ Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ”

- Cicero

“ Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ”

- Henri Frederic Amiel

“ Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same. ”

- Jennifer Hudson

“ My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do. ”

- Jennifer Hudson

“ The talent should speak for itself. ”

- Jennifer Hudson

“ We believe that if men have the talent to invent need machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it. ”

- Josh Lieb

“ We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. ”

- Mark Twain

“ You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. ”

- Rosalynn Carter

“ Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. ”

- Seneca

“ Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ”

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“ 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

“ Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ 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

“ Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. ”

- Larry Bird

“ 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

“ Acquiring a player of Steve's level and talent is very exciting for this team. ”

- Larry Brown

“ Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent. ”

- James G. Watt

“ Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way. ”

- William James
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