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Talent Quotes - Page 7

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

"Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power".

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

The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.

"Unkempt Thoughts" as translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1755). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.46

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.41, Random House