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There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Marguerite Blessington

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort.

Dave Weinbaum

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself

Ashleigh Brilliant

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anton Chekhov

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

William Bernbach

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Alfred Adler

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Robert Half

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you

Malcolm Cowley

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Marilyn Monroe

A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend.

Lisa Edmondson

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

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

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Marilyn Monroe

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

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