Hide not your talents, they for use were made, What's a sundial in the shade?
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Benjamin Franklin
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Anonymous
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Mel Brooks
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
More Quotes By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that...
