Talent Quotes - Page 4

• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Energy, Genius, Want

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.502, Harvard University Press

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• Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Attention, Periods, Assimilation

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• Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius

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• I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

  John Wooden

  Life, Sportsmanship, Experience

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.12, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• 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 knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

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• Concealed talent brings no reputation.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Reputation, Concealed

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• The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

  Hector Berlioz

  Good Luck, Enough, Hector

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• As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.

  Edmund Burke

  Way, Failing, Produce

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.607

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• I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

  Dean Koontz

  Inspirational, Believe, Skills

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• Talent is only a starting point.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Starting, Starting Point

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• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1655, Delphi Classics

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• Contemporary American psychiatrist
  It is a happy talent to know how to play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Play, Childhood

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• In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

  Aleister Crowley

  Willpower, Virtue, Absence

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• Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Sensuality, Expenses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

  Anne Bronte

  Strength, Exercise, Increase

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.232, Diversion Books

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• We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

  Ethel Waters

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Being Alone, Creativity, Careers

  Quoted in Ms., Aug. 1972

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• Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Using Your Talents, Giving, Bird

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• The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, People, Imagination

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• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Mean, Men

  "Ideas And Opinions". Book by Albert Einstein, 1954.

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• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Weed, Jobs

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• According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Expression

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• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  Veronica Lake

  Eye, Suffering, Vision

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

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