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Erica Jong

Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Henry Van Dyke

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

Pearl Bailey

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.

Thomas Wolfe

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.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Erica Jong

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

Erica Jong

Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

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.

Irving

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.

H.L. Mencken

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.

Calvin Coolidge

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Per

Calvin Coolidge

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.

Millard Fuller

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Weinbaum

If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.

Unknown

There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.

J. Petit-Senn

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

G. C. Lichtenberg

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.

John W. Gardner

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

DRYDEN: _Sophonisba,_ Prologue.

'Tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new Reformation.

Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Frank A. Clark

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism.

Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

John Wooden

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

Ernest Hemingway

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Erma Bombeck

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.

Frederick W. Faber

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Erma Bombeck

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".

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Amy Grant

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

James Arthur Baldwin

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

Kathe Kollwitz

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.

Robert Benchley

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.

Brendan Francis

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.

Jean Anouilh

Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Wystan Hugh Auden

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

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

Henry Van Dyke

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

Mark Twain

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.

Henry Van Dyke

Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Thomas Wolfe

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Kareem Abdul-Jabar

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Erma Bombeck

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".

Bruce Marton

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

William Ashley

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Margaret Thatcher

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 in

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. Per

"TVF Talent." -- TV's Frank, Talent Agent

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

You have to have a talent for having talent.

The talent is in the choices.

Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must.

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can, and you had best do what you're told.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

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

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

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice.

...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

"Even a band with no talent can amuse a bunch of idiots." Green Jelly

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

"No one respects a talent that is concealed." -- Desiderious Erasmus

"Doctor, you have an unsurpassed talent for understatement." Spock

"Caterpillars come and go, but this one's got TALENT!" Cary Grant

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

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engr

"Talent on loan from God!" What are the monthly payments?

"...with talent on loan from God." - Rush Limbaugh

"At IBM, We waste more talent than most companies ever have!"

"Too bad its not the Age of Talent!" -- Crow T. Robot

"Spare a talent for an old ex-leper!"

"You have a talent for umox!" -- Quark

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a

If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.

Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.