Talent Quotes

“Medium talent.”

“Talent is always queer-tempered.”

“Occultæ musices nullus respectus.”

“Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.”

“Genius … means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.”

“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”

“Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”

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“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”

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“Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere.”

“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

“Talent must be protected, especially if it's viewed as a threat. And what's more threatening to the status quo than a visionary?”

“Ne forçons point notre talent;
Nous ne ferions rien avec grâce:
Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse,
Ne saurait passer pour galant.”

“To THINK BIG and to use our talent doesn't mean we don't have difficulties on the way. We will - we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up.”

“Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,
Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.”

“I thought as a kid that talent was God-given, but it’s not. God gives you talent and you should use that talent with the real meaning of that word. I was stubborn. Maybe being young had something to do with it.”

“Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.”

“A man with talent eats, sweats, and cares for his children like any other. And if talent is a natural thing, remember that water is also, and fire, and wind; therefore flood and holocaust and hurricane are as natural as talent, and can consume and destroy you.”