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Talent Quotes
"Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether."
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"How become a writer? Naturally."
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"Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties."
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"Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery."
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"Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way."
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"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."
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"It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
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"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"
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"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
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"You're a Genius all the time."
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"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."
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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
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"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
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"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."
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"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."
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"Talent is an art of gaining admiration!"
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"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
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"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."
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"Everyone is beautiful and talented in their own special way. Some people can sing, dance, play instruments, teach, and more. You may not be in the hall of fame, but you possess the ability to inspire others. Recognize your talents and continue to be creative. Share your beautiful gifts with the world."
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"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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"One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side."
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"It is not something we often find out, but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary."
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"No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class."
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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
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"Brutes find out where their talents lie a bear will not attempt to fly."
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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"It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety, TV confuses people."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."
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