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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

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

At first I wasn’t sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

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

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Your talent is in your choice.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.