![]() “Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse - always open, always full, always abundant - new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes… it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul - its gaiety or its sadness. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.” – Milton Glaser “The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. “Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.” – Carl Jung When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.” – Rod Serling “Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. “The best way to get more talents is to improve the talents we have.” – Edward Bickersteth ![]() “I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else’s talent.” – Michael Jordan “This is how I define talent it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.” – Montesquieu “The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.” – Plautus “At first I wasn’t sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.” – Gordon Parks “Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.” – Stephen King “Self-doubt kills talent.” – Edie McClurg If you’ve never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?” – Ken Robinson “Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. ![]() “Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What’s a sundial in the shade?” ― Benjamin Franklin “Talent is an accident of genes – and a responsibility.” – Alan Rickman “I believe that every person is born with talent.” – Maya Angelou “Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.” – Konstantin Stanislavsky Enjoy this collection of quotes on Talent.
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