Best Talent Thoughts
3157 Talent quotes by 2133 unique authors
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There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are…
— Adam Rickitt
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Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.
— Cyril Connolly
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You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.
— Tom Jones
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
— Eric Hoffer
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only…
— George Santayana
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
— Thomas Jefferson
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
— Tacitus
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords…
— Gelett Burgess
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Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
— Seneca the Younger
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
— William Hazlitt
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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
— Gore Vidal
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The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it…
— Andre Gide
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There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
— William Hazlitt
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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
— James Russell Lowell
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Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
— Jules Renard
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