Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so many scientists have done, or we can work to find solutions to humanities greatest problems. Our orientation is found not only in our acts, but also in the policies we support or oppose.
Mother Earth is very talented.
My will exceeds my talents.
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent.
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.
A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.
The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?
A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
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