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~ I am no more humble than my talents require. ~

~ Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you ~

Malcolm Cowley

~ It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. ~

W. H. Auden

~ No man can discover his own talents. ~

Brendan Francis

~ There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. ~

John W. Gardner

~ God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools let them use their talents ~

William Shakespeare

~ If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ~

Thomas Wolfe

~ Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ~

Dylan Thomas

~ A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent ~

Logan Pearsall Smith

~ Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent"; my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. ~

Brazzzle Jean-Paul Sartre

~ A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~

Sydney Smith

~ It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ~

Louisa May Alcott

~ Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. ~

Wendell Phillips

~ For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ~

John W. Gardner

~ My bad habits aren't my title, my strengths and talents are my title. ~

Vervain Layne Staley

~ Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something? ~

Tennessee Williams

~ If you don't realize there is always someone who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for others' talents ~

Hortense Canady

~ The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent. ~

Esther B. Fein

~ A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent ~

Honore de Balzac

~ People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ~

Andrew Carnegie

~ Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs. ~

Steve Pavlina

~ It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent ~

William Cobbett

~ With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ~

Schopenhauer

~ The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce ~

John Eliot

~ The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office ~

Henry Mencken

~ 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

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