{"topic":"talent","quotes":[{"quote":"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.","author":"Baltasar Gracian"},{"quote":"Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.","author":"Baltasar Gracian"},{"quote":"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?","author":"Benjamin Franklin"},{"quote":"If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.","author":"Brendan Francis"},{"quote":"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.","author":"Cicero"},{"quote":"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.","author":"Erica Jong"},{"quote":"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.","author":"Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel"},{"quote":"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.","author":"Henry Van Dyke"},{"quote":"It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.","author":"Mark Twain"},{"quote":"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.","author":"Rosalynn Carter"},{"quote":"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.","author":"Seneca"},{"quote":"Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.","author":"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"},{"quote":"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.","author":"Sophia Loren"},{"quote":"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.","author":"Sydney Smith"},{"quote":"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."}]}