Guftagu #625 - Page 2

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.

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.

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

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.