Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Art depends on luck and talent.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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.
I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.
There are two kinds of talent, 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.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.
Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.
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.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
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