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We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

— Tilman J. Fertitta

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

— Lev Vygotsky

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

— Louisa May Alcott

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

— William Butler Yeats

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

— Jeff Hawkins

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

— Eminem

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

— Malcolm Cowley

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.

— Michael Hintze

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

— Michelle Obama

✗Opposing Perspectives

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

— Phyllis A. Whitney