Talent

(223 votes)   Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(166 votes)   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.

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

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(114 votes)   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.

EugFne Delacroix
1798-1863, French Artist

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(107 votes)   A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(97 votes)   Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

John Quinton

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(94 votes)   The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Titus Maccius Plautus
BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet

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

Henry Van Dyke
1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

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(81 votes)   Talents go by nature not by birth.

(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786),

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(77 votes)   A man gift will make a way for him.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(72 votes)   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.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(70 votes)   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.

May Sarton
1912-, American Poet, Novelist

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(64 votes)   The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(64 votes)   This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

Charles De Montesquieu
1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher

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(58 votes)   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.

Uta Hagen

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