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Talent Quotes - Page 21

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.397, e-artnow

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.110, Pickle Partners Publishing

Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.

Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.144, Penguin

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.31, Penguin

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

Frederick William Faber (1866). “Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects”, p.343

I probably have genius. But no talent.

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”