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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)

Most of us would kill ourselves if we were as talent-free as Elizabeth Hurley. (Quote by - Claudia Shear)

It's not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent too. (Quote by - Sir Alexander Korda)

The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit. (Quote by - S.c. Tallentyre)

Genius is talent provided with ideals. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Quote by - Henri-Frederic Amiel)

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. (Quote by - Stephen King)

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. (Quote by - Jack Welch)

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something? (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)

All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent (Quote by - Honore de Balza)

Paul Hunter was a man who had everything going for him - an outstanding talent, good looks, fame, riches, charm and a beautiful wife. (Quote by - Rodney Walker)

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. (Quote by - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)

Competition is the whetstone of talent. (Quote by - Proverb)

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him. (Quote by - Robbie Savage)

God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools let them use their talents (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent (Quote by - John McEnroe)

A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

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