104 quotes found
“There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.”
“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.”
“A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.”
“The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.”
“Concealed talent brings no reputation.”
“The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.”
“This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.”
“Hope is a talent like any other.”
“Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.”
“But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which ...”
“If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.”
“Talent is a word lazy people use to explain why they can’t do things.”
“The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.”
“I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.”
“To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.”
“How did the hearing go?” she asked.“We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.”“The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours,” William corrected.“Yes, but ‘we die at dawn the day after tomor...”
“All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.”
“Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.”
