I have sadly neglected the cultivation of my natural talents. Let me now attend to it, imploring the divine blessing. I will form a plan of study and exercise, having a special reference to the faults of my intellect, whether natural or superinduced.
—William Wilberforce
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If it should ever please God to call me to any situation of power, or to any higher eminence, which I do not expect, he would furnish me with the talents necessary for the discharge of its duties.
—William Wilberforce
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
—Thomas Jefferson
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. It is not good enough to have good talent, the main thing is to apply it well
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
—Aristotle
O may my time, my fortune, my understanding, and all my talents be more diligently improved, but may the one thing needful be the grand concern with me, and let not my heart be overcharged with lusts of other things.
—William Wilberforce
I have sadly neglected the cultivation of my natural talents. Let me now attend to it, imploring the divine blessing. I will form a plan of study and exercise, having a special reference to the faults of my intellect, whether natural or superinduced.
—William Wilberforce
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
—Albert Einstein
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
—Isaac Newton
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
—Nikolai Gogol