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The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

It is better to be likable than to be talented.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.