The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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.

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

There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

Your talent is in your choice.

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

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

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