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Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Discretion
Junius

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People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Hatred
Jerry Lewis

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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Thomas B. Macaulay

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Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Opportunity
Cotton Mather

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Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Talent
Owen Meredith

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Hidden talent counts for nothing.
Talent
Nero

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
Work
Anna Pavlova

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It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Genius
Pablo Picasso

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The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Talent
Titus Maccius Plautus

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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Talent
Jules Renard

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I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
Talent
Martin Ritt

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Ideas
Antoine Rivarol

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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
Talent
Mickey Rourke

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Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Equality
Viscount Samuel

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Competition
Saying

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Talent works, genius creates.
Talent
Robert Schumann

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An actress must never lose her ego -- without it she has no talent.
Acting and Actors
Norma Shearer

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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
Tact and Tactfulness
William Gilmore Simms

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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Books - Bestsellers
Logan Pearsall Smith

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Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Discipline
Roy L. Smith

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
Courage
Sydney Smith

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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Talent
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Sincerity
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Talent
Konstantin Stanislavisky

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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Invention and Inventor
Jonathan Swift

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun