Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it. Bear Bryant

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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. Stephen King

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A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. John Rockefeller

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Have success and there will always be fools to say that you have talent. Edouard Pailleron

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One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. William Matthews

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One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others. Frank Tyger

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent. Irving Berlin

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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. John Wooden

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

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

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I'd rather have a lot of talent and little experience than a lot of experience and little talent. John Wooden

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia

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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can. George Allen

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In most domains, talent is overrated compared to determination — partly because it makes a better story, partly because it gives onlookers an excuse for being lazy, and partly because after a while determination starts to look like talent. Paul Graham

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Those who have talent must hug it, embrace it, nurture it and share it lest it be taken away from you as fast as it was loaned to you. Frank Sinatra

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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer

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Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. Robert Brault

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One helpful rule of thumb for knowing where you might have a little extra talent is to consider what you were obsessively doing before you were ten years old. There's a strong connection between what interests you and what you're good at. People are naturally drawn to the things they feel comfortable doing, and comfort is a marker for talent. Scott Adams

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