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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

— Sydney Smith

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

— Erica Jong

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

— Plautus

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

— Sidney Sheldon

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

— Constantin Stanislavski

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

— Mike Ditka

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

— Maynard Webb

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

— Aldous Huxley

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Alfred Adler

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

— Marguerite Gardiner