T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Talent has no value without hard work.”
“Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.”
“Talent imitates, but genius steals.”
“Talent imitates, genius steals.”
“Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.”
“Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”
“Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.”
“Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.”
“Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.”
“Talent is a gift from God. That is something that you are born with. To be able to be born with singing talent is just a gift. You can learn how to sing better, but you cannot learn to sing with certain quality. It is just something you are born with.”
“Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.”
“Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.”
“Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.”
“Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”
Source: Leadership Promises for Your Week
“Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.”
“Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.”
“Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.”
“Talent is a long patience.”
“Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.”
“Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.”
“Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.”
“Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.”
“Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.”
“Talent is a valued tormentor.”
“Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.”
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.”
“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.”
Source: The First Circle
“Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.”
“Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.”
“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.”
Source: Respect for Acting
“Talent is being able to please people.”
“Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling.”
“Talent is cheap. What matters is discipline.”
“Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.”
“Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.”
“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.”
“Talent is culture with insolence.”
“Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.”
“Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.”
“Talent is everywhere, winning attitude is not.”
Source: Coaching Wrestling Successfully
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”