Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Talent without working hard is nothing.
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.
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.
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 substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
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.
Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.