quotations about talent
Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
STEPHEN KING
Duma Key
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated: rays powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
ROBERT ELDRIDGE ARIS WILLMOTT
Pleasures of Literature
Talents are distributed by nature without the slightest regard, or respect, to genealogies, pedigrees, ancestry, and all that kind of thing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
attributed, Day's Collacon
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
PEARL BAILEY
Newsweek, December 4, 1967
While you have a talent, and time to use it, be diligent.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
Talent equals success minus effort.
TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC
The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential