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Talent Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is…
- It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
- We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn…
- All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.
- Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and…
- …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
- We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
- Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness…
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- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. — Kevin Bacon
- What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good… — Erykah Badu
- There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given… — Pearl Bailey
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. — Alec Baldwin
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation… — James A. Baldwin
- I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball