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| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage | | Philip Sidney | |
| A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent | | Honore de Balzac | |
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| A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. | | Gore Vidal | |
| All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent. | | Tom Lehrer | |
| Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? | | Nelson Mandela | |
| Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. | | Stephen R. Covey | |
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| Everyone may speak truly, but to speak logically, prudently, and adequately is a talent few possess. | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. | | Sophia Loren | |
| God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools let them use their talents | | William Shakespeare | |
| Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. | | Marilyn Monroe | |
| Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. | | Carl Gustav Jung | |
| Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
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| I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no | | Maya Angelou | |
| I believe that every person is born with talent. | | Maya Angelou | |