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Individual Talent Quotes

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

T. S. Eliot
Art, Artist, Individual Talent
T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.85, Broadview Press

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

T. S. Eliot
Basketball, Want, Individual Talent
The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

T. S. Eliot
Poetry, Personality, Individual Talent
The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

William Barclay
Life Is Like, Use, Individual Talent
William Barclay (2014). “Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B”, p.88, Saint Andrew Press

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

Viacheslav Platonov
Volleyball, Natural Talent, Individual Talent

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Malcolm Gladwell
Historical, Environmental, Individual Talent

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