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Quotes about talent
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I believe that every person is born with talent. (Walston Ray)
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. (Walston Ray)
Talent is only the starting point. (Walston Ray)
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.. (Walston Ray)
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Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does. (Walston Ray)
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. (Walston Ray)
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. (Walston Ray)
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. (Walston Ray)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Walston Ray)
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. (Walston Ray)
It is a happy talent to know how to play. (Walston Ray)
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. (Walston Ray)
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. (Walston Ray)
No one respects a talent that is concealed. (Walston Ray)
Concealed talent brings no reputation. (Walston Ray)
Talents go by nature not by birth. (Walston Ray)
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. (Walston Ray)
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. (Walston Ray)
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. (Walston Ray)
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. (Walston Ray)
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. (Walston Ray)
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail. (Walston Ray)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. (Walston Ray)
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. (Walston Ray)
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. (Walston Ray)
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