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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

Talent is not universal but it is widely spread: Give enough people the capacity to create, and inevitably gems will emerge.

Chris Anderson

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

Albert Einstein

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown

Anatole France

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

John Wooden

Talent works, genius creates.