top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Talent quotes
"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
"If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out."
Explore more quotes by Clifton Fadiman
"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."
bottom of page