TALENT

Related Subjects: Ability, Genius, Skill

1. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.—AMIEL
   

2. Great talents largely create their own conditions. At least, they may be said to crystallize tendencies that exist in the air about them,—tendencies that have gradually come to exist,—of which lesser talents have been unaware.—VAN WYCK BROOKS, The Flowering of New England
   

3. To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment of Fortune; to each, by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum of capability.—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
   

4. It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one
   sort of talent—like a carrier-pigeon.—GEORGE ELIOT
   

5. Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.—EMERSON
   

6. Men of talent are men for occasions.—HAZLITT
   

7. Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry, it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.—HAZLITT
   

8. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.—ALDOUS HUXLEY, Point Counter Point
   

9. Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware. The passions alone have the privilege of bringing them to light, and of giving us sometimes views more certain and more perfect than art could possibly produce.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

10. Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.—LOWELL, Rousseau and the Sentimentalists