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The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.
Henry Miller
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Johann von Goethe
A man gift will make a way for him.
Bible
Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World a
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick W. Faber, Notes on Doc
No man can discover his own talents.
Brendan Francis
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
Rainn Wilson
Hidden talent counts for nothing.
Nero
This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.
Charles Montesquieu
Talent works, genius creates.
Robert Alexander Schumann
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
I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Thomas Jefferson
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen King
Talents go by nature not by birth.
Frederick the Great
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Owen Meredith
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
