Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.
If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.
It takes sacrifice as well as talent.
A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.
I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.
Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat. , Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas. ]
Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.
If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would let you know about it -- and not kindly. There'd be things like "Get off the stage!" and certain expletives we won't say here. It was a rough audience.
My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!
Stripping for cash is yet another of my many talents
Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.
Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.
If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.
