"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

Talent,

4

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

Exlpore more Talent quotes

"But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Talent, Grace, Creativity, Idea

"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."

Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychologist

Talent, Pressure

"The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Talent, Writer

"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Talent, Success, Growth, Potential

"The key to your success in this world is to discover the field of your gifts."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Talent, Gifts, Discovery, Purpose, Success

"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Talent, Genius

"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."

Jean Kerr, American Playwright

Talent, People

"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Talent, Dignity

"Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright."

Jose Marti, Cuban Activist

Talent, Country, Culture, Humanity

"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

Talent, Management

Explore more quotes by Joshua Lederberg

"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."

Age, Successful, Being, Confidence

"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."

Strength,

"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

Talent,

"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

Work, Decisions

"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."

Life, Science, People, Hope

"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."

Society, Harm, Risk

"Everybody has to learn for the first time."

Time, First

"By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks."

Time,

"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."

Personality, Privacy, Public

"Life's a hobby."

Life,