Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.
Talent always rises to the top
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
Talent should minister to genius.
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.
Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.
I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore followed the standards of political party. It is that of discarding every remnant of rancor against each other, of embracing as countrymen and friends, and of yielding to talents and virtue alone that confidence which in times of contention for principle was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.
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