Talent

“Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”

“Genius … means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.”

“To THINK BIG and to use our talent doesn't mean we don't have difficulties on the way. We will - we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up.”

“Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.”

“Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.”

“Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.”

“...but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force...”

“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”

“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. With people with only modest ability, modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent, it is hypocrisy.”

“Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.”

“Talent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.”

“The way to attain to larger gifts is to employ the gifts you have. Give Jesus the one talent, and then He may trust you with two. If you cannot speak glibly in a prayer-meeting, then stammer out your heart's thanks in the best fashion you can. It may be that your few broken words may accomplish more than another man's fluent harangues.”

“The man that wrapped up his talent in the napkin and said, "Lo, there thou hast that is thine," was too sanguine. There was never an unused talent rolled up in a handkerchief yet, but when it was taken out and put into the scales, it was lighter than when it was committed to the keeping of the earth.”