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Quotations by Subject: Talent
(Related Subjects: Competence, Success)
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.: Baltasar Gracian
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.: Baltasar Gracian
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.: Brendan Francis
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.: Erica Jong
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.: Henry Van Dyke
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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 (1771 - 1845)


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