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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri-Frederic Amiel Where talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. - Aristotle The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy. - Honore de Balzac Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. - Shirley Chisholm It is a proof of great talents to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit. [Lat., Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 16) Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. - Malcolm Cowley Concealed talent brings no reputation. [Lat., Occultae musices nullus respectus.] - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus, Adagia Talent without tact is only half talent. - Horace Greeley Talent of the highest order, and such as is calculated to command admiration, may exist apart from wisdom. - Robert Hall Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong, The Craft of Poetry We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent; Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (IV, 5) Talent in that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is. - James Russell Lowell, Among my Books--Rousseau and the Sentimentalists Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. Blot out my name, that the spirits of Shakespeare and Milton and Burns Look not down on the praises of fools with a pity my soul yet spurns. - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), Last Words of a Sensitive Second-rate Poet, published in "Cornhill Magazine", p. 516 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what Nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. - Sydney Smith Use the talents you possess--for the woods would be silent if no birds sang but the best. - Henry Jackson van Dyke (2) Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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