Talent Quotes

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life

Oscar Wilde

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Smiley Blanton

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

W. H. Auden

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Gustav Jung, Psychological

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Louisa May Alcott

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

Eugene Delacroix

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann von Goethe

Talent is only the starting point.

Irving Berlin

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

Thomas Jefferson

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Leon Trotsky

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Thomas Carlyle

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles.

W. P. Scargill

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

May Sarton

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

Plautus

However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Ernest Hemingway