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Talent

«Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt | About: Genius, Talent | Keywords: dead person
«Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.»
Author: Robert Half | About: Talent, Work | Keywords: shame
«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 so much further than people with vastly superior talent.»
«Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.»
Author: Warren G. Bennis | About: Belief, Talent | Keywords: accomplished, talented
«Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.»
«Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.»
«He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher»
«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.»
«God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools let them use their talents»
«Genius is talent provided with ideals.»

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