If you need to get inspired, take a look at these sayings. And since we are always looking for great quotes, if you find one please feel free to share it with us.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. - Sydney Smith
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? -
Benjamin Franklin
Work while you have light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. - Henri Frederick Amiel
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Attributed to both William Blake and Henry Van Dyke
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. -
Emile Zola
. . . talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.-
Maya Angelou
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting—intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, to make one’s self heard and seen. - Uta Hagen
People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them. - Franz Grillparzer
In the battle of existence, talent is the punch: tact is the clever footwork. - Wilson Mizmer
Men only take their needs into consideration, never their abilities. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. - Owen Meredith
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. - C. G. Jung
Talent counts thirty percent; appearance counts seventy. - Chinese proverb
