Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
STEPHEN KING, Danse Macabre
Brevity is the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOV, letter to A.P. Chekhov, April 11, 1889
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Valley of Fear
Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.
STEPHEN KING, Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 17, 2007
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
SMILEY BLANTON, Love or Perish
Pride not thyself upon thy talents: they were given thee at thy birth. Hast thou done aught before thy birth to deserve them?
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Not he deserves praise that has talents, but he that uses them.
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent--almost like a carrier pigeon.
GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss
While you have a talent, and time to use it, be diligent.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
Mediocre ability, well developed and properly planted, will produce a larger tree of success than will extraordinary ability, scattered or uncared for.
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Sure, the home-field is an advantage -- but so is having a lot of talent.
