Talent
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Talent can refer to:
Quotations

Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.

Maya Angelou (b. 1928), American author and performer. Black Women Writers at Work, Ch. 1, by Claudia Tate (1983)

Genius … means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881). Life of Frederick the Great, Book iv. Chap. iii.

Entertainment is in my genes – as I like to say.

Jack Dee|Jack Dee, English stand-up comedian. From his interview on, The One Show, BBC 1 television, 29th October 2009

Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso (1790) i, 2

"...but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force..."

Stephen King, Danse Macabre (1981)

Talent is that which is in a man’s power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891). Rousseau and the Sentimentalists

"It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent."

Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest (1886)

 
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