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Talent Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
- A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
- There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
- 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…
- Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
- Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
- Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
- But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but…
- The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never…
- Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new…
- Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the…
- Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
- Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of…
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its…
- Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
- Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has…
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a…
- Genius is power, talent is applicability.
- Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
- We often read with as much talent as we write.
- A forte always makes a foible.
- Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.
- The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.
- If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,…
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- 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
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- 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