talent quotes

• The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. (James Agate) [english/talent]
• I believe that every person is born with talent. (Maya Angelou) [talent]
• 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. (Pearl Bailey) [talent/talent/talent/talent]
• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. (James Baldwin) [talent]
• I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. (Lucille Ball) [system/talent]
• Talent is only the starting point. (Irving Berlin) [talent/point]
• Let the path be open to talent. ( Napoleon I) [path/talent]
• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. (Truman Capote) [attorney/abstinence/talent/system]
• If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart. (Thomas Carlyle) [intellect/talent/color]
• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. (Thomas Carlyle) [intellect/talent/color]
• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. (Albert Einstein) [talent/curiosity/]
• Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [talent/genius/prayer]
• Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [imagination/talent/people/health]
• Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [talent]
• It is a happy talent to know how to play. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [talent]
• 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) [talent/personality/quality/state]
• Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [talent/character]
• The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [talent/happiness]
• Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [talent/character/human/life]
• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [talent/happiness]
• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [talent/willpower/find/happiness]
• Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object (Hermann Hesse) [happiness/talent]
• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer) [talent/inspiration/ability/misfortune]
• 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. (Eric Hoffer) [talent/desire]
• It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. (Eric Hoffer) [talent/light/heat]
• Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent. (Eric Hoffer) [youth/talent/talent]
• The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [talent/genius]
• I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. (John F. Kennedy) [think/collection/talent/human]
• We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. (John F. Kennedy) [men/talent/men/talent]
• There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [people/genius/talent/desires]
• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [spirit/talent/demand/stupidity]

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