A Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?

John Lancaster Spalding

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Any Efficacy Faith Greatest Had Passionate Say Talent Thou Work

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John Lancaster Spalding
American - Author
June 2, 1840 - August 25, 1916

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Maxim Gorky

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

Alexander Whyte

I'm all about talent. I love talent and I want to work with as much great talent as possible. My job as editor in chief is making the most of everybody's talent and pulling that together into a format that's even better than an individual.

Glenda Bailey

Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever.

Brigham Young

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.

Winslow Homer

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

Arsene Wenger

I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And there's so much talent to be cast. There really is. We saw some really good readings. There's more talent to be had there.

Kelly Reichardt

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Pearl Bailey

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

Red Auerbach

In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A mediocre talent with lots of hard work will go further than a stellar talent who coasts.

David Joyner

The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.

Will Smith

The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.

David McCullough

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.

Milton Glaser

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

Abhinav Bindra

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.