Real talent Quote by Louisa May Alcott

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

— Louisa May Alcott

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

— 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…

— 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…

— Louisa May Alcott

Conte is correct - talent needs to be nurtured on a daily basis with hard work.

— Giorgio Chiellini

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

— Charles Saatchi

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

— Anonymous

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while…

— Robert Schumann

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

— Janet Flanner

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

— Charles Horton Cooley