Talent proverbs

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◆ Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

- Erica Jong99

◆ When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.

- James Patterson99

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle99

◆ Every artist was first an amateur.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

- Susanna Kaysen99

◆ Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King99

◆ It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

- Ashly Lorenzana99

◆ Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

- Stephen King99

◆ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

- émile Zola99

◆ The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe99

◆ Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

- Pope John Paul II99

◆ According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

- Deepak Chopra99

◆ ...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

- Patrick Süskind99

◆ Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

- Russell Brand99