talent

Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to...