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Talent Quotes


"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."


"If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!"


"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."


"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."


"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"


"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."


"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."


"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."


"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."


"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."


"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail."
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