Quotes with talent

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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 power as a benefactor.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Bernard Williams Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Jules Renard Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Stephen King Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
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    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Uta Hagen Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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  • Jean Anouilh Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Stephen King Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Irving Berlin Talent is only the starting point.
    Irving Berlin
    American composer and lyricist (1888 - 1989)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Robert Schumann Talent works, genius creates.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Franklin P. Jones The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • James Agate The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
    James Agate
    English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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