quotations about talent
Brevity is the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOV
letter to A. P. Chekhov, April 11, 1889
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
PEARL BAILEY
Newsweek, December 4, 1967
Talents are distributed by nature without the slightest regard, or respect, to genealogies, pedigrees, ancestry, and all that kind of thing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
attributed, Day's Collacon
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
While you have a talent, and time to use it, be diligent.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
Talent equals success minus effort.
TOMAS CHAMORRO-PREMUZIC
The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential