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\"Best<\/a>
Best quotes on genius and talent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Best quotes on genius and talent, a selection of great aphorisms about the mysterious nature of human creativity in the the world of art, literature and science.<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius sits in a glass house – but in an unbreakable one – conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon’s claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. “New art,” it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in “ism.”)<\/span>
\nPaul Klee<\/span><\/p>\n

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.<\/span>
\nLord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.<\/span>
\nJames Joyce<\/span><\/p>\n

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse – always open, always full, always abundant – new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes… it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul – its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.<\/span>
\nEugene Delacroix<\/span><\/p>\n

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It’s the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.<\/span>
\nMay Sarton<\/span><\/p>\n

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a commonplace dauber, so I don’t intend to try any more.<\/span>
\nLouisa May Alcott<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if a genius is in heaven, he still has hell within him.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst that can happen to a genius is to be understood.<\/span>
\nEnnio Flaiano<\/span><\/p>\n

Memory, speed of calculation and precision, all things that cannot compete with the creativity of genius.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.<\/span>
\nHenri Frederic Amiel<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Men of genius seem to me more suited to overthrowing or founding states than to maintaining them.<\/span><\/span>
\nDenis Diderot <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is often neglected, rejected, ignored, and despised; ultimately, its existence is spent amidst worry, anger, bitterness, and melancholy.<\/span><\/span>
\nCarl William Brown Via E. Kretschmer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Passion is the genesis of genius.<\/span>
\nGalileo Galilei<\/span><\/p>\n

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.<\/span>
\nJoey Lauren Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is sorrow’s child.<\/span>
\nJohn Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is an infinite capacity to endure pain.<\/span><\/span>
\nJane Ellice Hopkins<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/p>\n

I consider the genius, in any form, as an effort of nature to produce, among great sacrifices, a better human prototype, more successful, more worthy of life than usual.<\/span>
\nHermann Hesse<\/span><\/p>\n

God give them wisdom that have it, and those that are fools, let them use their talents.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.<\/span>
\nLouisa May Alcott<\/span><\/p>\n

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.<\/span>
\nHenri Frederic Amiel<\/span><\/p>\n

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.<\/span>
\nLouis Aragon<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs – apart from discernment – a certain greatness to find him.<\/span>
\nMargot Asquith<\/span><\/p>\n

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.<\/span>
\nW. H. Auden<\/span><\/p>\n

The first great genius rebel in history is an angel, Satan, who wasn’t too keen on God’s overwhelming power; though defeated, he remains immortal, as do rebellion and evil.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quotes<\/a>
Quotes about genius and talent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.<\/span>
\nCharles Baudelaire<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is childhood recaptured.<\/span>
\nJean Baudrillard<\/span><\/p>\n

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.<\/span>
\nSimone De Beauvoir<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.<\/span>
\nMax Beerbohm<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.<\/span>
\nMarguerite Gardiner<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.<\/span>
\nJohn Christian Bovee<\/span><\/p>\n

Since when was genius found respectable?<\/span>
\nElizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.<\/span>
\nEdward G. Bulwer-Lytton<\/span><\/p>\n

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.<\/span>
\nSamuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will go its whole life believing it to be stupid.<\/span>
\nAlbert Einstein <\/span><\/p>\n

Fools are to genius enthusiasts what cute lab rats are to science researchers.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.<\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts.<\/span>
\nItalo Calvino<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.<\/span>
\nThomas Carlyle<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.<\/span>
\nC. W. Ceran<\/span><\/p>\n

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.<\/span>
\nChao Chang<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s better to isolate yourself than to contaminate your genius with the pernicious arrogance of stupidity and foolish, cultured vanity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is independent of situation.<\/span>
\nCharles Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

The first simple and concrete action to help spread genius is to help fight stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.<\/span>
\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.<\/span>
\nCharles Caleb Colton<\/span><\/p>\n

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.<\/span>
\nWilliam Crashaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.<\/span>
\nLeonardo Da Vinci<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.<\/span>
\nEdward Dahlberg<\/span><\/p>\n

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?<\/span>
\nElizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.<\/span>
\nRobertson Davies<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea – possessing them – that what has been said has still not been said enough.<\/span>
\nEugene Delacroix<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.<\/span>
\nDenis Diderot<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Galileo<\/a>
Galileo Galilei quote on genius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genius, when young, is divine.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

In this stupid and waste land it would certainly be better for all those hollow men to become a bit more humanly and geniously Fool!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.<\/span>
\nIsaac Disraeli<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.<\/span>
\nJohn Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.<\/span>
\nJohn Dryden<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.<\/span>
\nThomas A. Edison<\/span><\/p>\n

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.<\/span>
\nThomas A. Edison<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.<\/span>
\nGeorge Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Accept your genius and say what you think.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

A genius must necessarily create, and if he cannot create, he must necessarily destroy. Ultimately, it’s always the same thing.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.<\/span>
\nOliver Wendell Holmes<\/span><\/p>\n

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius often also knows the works and psychology of idiots; unfortunately, stupidity is ignorant of the philosophy of genius.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.<\/span>
\nDesiderius Erasmus<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.<\/span>
\nLord Essex<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.<\/span>
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.<\/span>
\nF. Scott Fitzgerald<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and pruning knife.<\/span>
\nMargaret Witter Fuller<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.<\/span>
\nMargaret Witter Fuller<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.<\/span>
\nR. Buckminster Fuller<\/span><\/p>\n

My genius may be a tribute to repetition, but it’s certainly never a flattery of stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.<\/span>
\nJose Ortega Y Gasset<\/span><\/p>\n

The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.<\/span>
\nOliver Goldsmith<\/span><\/p>\n

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it… the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.<\/span>
\nAlexander Hamilton<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.<\/span>
\nB. R. Hayden<\/span><\/p>\n

Brilliance is merely the reverse of stupidity, the face of universal nothingness.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.<\/span>
\nFrancis Herbert Hedge<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Leonardo<\/a>
Leonardo Da Vinci quote on genius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.<\/span>
\nHeinrich Heine<\/span><\/p>\n

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.<\/span>
\nJosiah Gilbert Holland<\/span><\/p>\n

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.<\/span>
\nOliver Wendell Holmes<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.<\/span>
\nDavid Hume<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius and madness created Hitler, but conformism and stupidity then caused Nazism and its consequences.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.<\/span>
\nWashington Irving<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.<\/span>
\nWilliam James<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.<\/span>
\nCarl Jung<\/span><\/p>\n

All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That’s probably because school hasn’t encouraged us to notice what’s hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.<\/span>
\nPeter Kline<\/span><\/p>\n

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.<\/span>
\nArthur Koestler<\/span><\/p>\n

To see things in the seed is genius.<\/span>
\nLao-Tzu<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.<\/span>
\nJohann Kaspar Lavater<\/span><\/p>\n

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.<\/span>
\nJohann Kaspar Lavater<\/span><\/p>\n

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.<\/span>
\nGeorge Henry Lewes<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.<\/span>
\nGeorg C. Lichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.<\/span>
\nGeorg C. Lichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.<\/span>
\nAbraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

All the means of action – the shapeless masses – the materials – lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.<\/span>
\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.<\/span>
\nJames Russell Lowell<\/span><\/p>\n

Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.<\/span>
\nRobert S. Lund<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is eternal patience.<\/span>
\nMichelangelo<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.<\/span>
\nDonald G. Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.<\/span>
\nHannah More<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.<\/span>
\nVladimir Nabokov<\/span><\/p>\n

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.<\/span>
\nEzra Pound<\/span><\/p>\n

Geniuses themselves don’t talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.<\/span>
\nJ. C. (James Cash) Penney<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is personality with a penny’s worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.<\/span>
\nPablo Picasso<\/span><\/p>\n

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.<\/span>
\nPablo Picasso<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.<\/span>
\nChinese Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.<\/span>
\nMan Ray<\/span><\/p>\n

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.<\/span>
\nJohann Friedrich Von Schiller<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Schlegel<\/span><\/p>\n

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.<\/span>
\nAnne Germain De Stael<\/span><\/p>\n

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.<\/span>
\nGertrude Stein<\/span><\/p>\n

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.<\/span>
\nJonathan Swift<\/span><\/p>\n

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.<\/span>
\nPuzant Kevork Thomajan<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.<\/span>
\nSir Herbert Beerbohm Tree<\/span><\/p>\n

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.<\/span>
\nH. R. Trevor-Roper<\/span><\/p>\n

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You’ll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The divine egoism hat is genius.<\/span>
\nMary Webb<\/span><\/p>\n

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.<\/span>
\nSimone Weil<\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one!<\/span>
\nOrson Welles<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Albert<\/a>
Albert Einstein quote on genius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

I have nothing to declare except my genius.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.<\/span>
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.<\/span>
\nBern Williams<\/span><\/p>\n

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.<\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.<\/span>
\nMary Kay Ash<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe that every person is born with talent.<\/span>
\nMaya Angelou<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no such thing as can’t, only won’t. If you’re qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can’t blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.<\/span>
\nJan Ashford<\/span><\/p>\n

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one’s nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.<\/span>
\nW. H. Auden<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nPearl Bailey<\/span><\/p>\n

If true genius is unknown and fools are so popular, then the odds certainly need to be redressed a bit.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is only the starting point.<\/span>
\nIrving Berlin<\/span><\/p>\n

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”.<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.<\/span>
\nGerald Brenan<\/span><\/p>\n

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.<\/span>
\nGerald Brenan<\/span><\/p>\n

If I have any talent at all it’s from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.<\/span>
\nGarth Brooks<\/span><\/p>\n

Your talent is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.<\/span>
\nLeo Buscaglia<\/span><\/p>\n

God doesn’t give people talents that he doesn’t want people to use.<\/span>
\nIron Eagle<\/span><\/p>\n

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.<\/span>
\nCyril Connolly<\/span><\/p>\n

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.<\/span>
\nCharles Horton Cooley<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.<\/span>
\nEdward Degas<\/span><\/p>\n

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.<\/span>
\nSir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/span><\/p>\n

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.<\/span>
\nHenry Van Dyke<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a happy talent to know how to play.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent for talent’s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Concealed talent brings no reputation.<\/span>
\nDesiderius Erasmus<\/span><\/p>\n

No one respects a talent that is concealed.<\/span>
\nDesiderius Erasmus<\/span><\/p>\n

Talents go by nature not by birth.<\/span>
\n(Frederick II) Frederick The Great<\/span><\/p>\n

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.<\/span>
\nAndre Gide<\/span><\/p>\n

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting – intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, to make one’s self heard and seen.<\/span>
\nUta Hagen<\/span><\/p>\n

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.<\/span>
\nRobert Half<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have this enormous talent, it’s got you by the balls, it’s a demon. You can’t be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn’t that nice a guy.<\/span>
\nDustin Hoffman<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.<\/span>
\nAldous Huxley<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.<\/span>
\nErica Jong<\/span><\/p>\n

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities that chance discovers.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

Some bad qualities form great talents.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.<\/span>
\nOwen Meredith<\/span><\/p>\n

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.<\/span>
\nGeorg C. Lichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.<\/span>
\nThomas B. Macaulay<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.<\/span>
\nOrison Swett Marden<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nBernard Meltzer<\/span><\/p>\n

This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.<\/span>
\nCharles De Montesquieu<\/span><\/p>\n

Hidden talent counts for nothing.<\/span>
\nNero (37-68, Roman emperor)<\/span><\/p>\n

He had a lot of talent, but didn’t have much dedication; wasn’t organized, didn’t know how to learn, didn’t know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn’t try to learn how to get better.<\/span>
\nJack Nicklaus<\/span><\/p>\n

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.<\/span>
\nJohn Quinton<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.<\/span>
\nTitus Maccius Plautus<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write one page, it writes three hundred.<\/span>
\nJules Renard<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t have a lot of respect for talent; talent is genetic. It’s what you do with it that counts.<\/span>
\nMartin Ritt<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.<\/span>
\nMickey Rourke<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles.<\/span>
\nW. P. Scargill<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent works, genius creates.<\/span>
\nRobert Schumann<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.<\/span>
\nAlexander Solzhenitsyn<\/span><\/p>\n

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.<\/span>
\nKonstantin Stanislavisky<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.<\/span>
\nJohn Templeton<\/span><\/p>\n

A man gift will make a way for him.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.<\/span>
\nJohn Wooden <\/span><\/p>\n

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