Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that 'talent' to the dark place where it leads.

No man can discover his own talents.

The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

Talent is often a defect in character.

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

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

Every man loves what he is good at.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a Sun-dial in the shade?

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

A forte always makes a foible.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.

I believe talent is like electricity. We do not understand electricity. We use it. Electricity makes no judgement. You can plug into it, and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going ... or you can electrocute a person with it. ... I think talent is like that.

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.