Talent Quotes

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

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Artist as Housewife" (1972)

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• Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

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• All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

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• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Teaching, Use

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• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Willpower, Will Power

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• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Business, Work

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• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Education, Intelligence

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

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• Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Work, Light

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• Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Gold, Gifts And Talents, Genius

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Success, Education, Knowledge

  The Valley of Fear ch. 1 (1915)

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• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.

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

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.142, Yale University Press

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

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Talent works, genius creates.

  Robert Schumann

  Music, Coaching, Genius

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• Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Patience, Long, Effort

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  We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I believe that every person is born with talent.

  Maya Angelou

  Strength, Believe, Born

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 05, 2011

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• True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Happiness, Using Your Talents

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