Talent
Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.
Inclination; will; disposition; desire.
Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).
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Talent Quotations
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Marilyn Monroe
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Tony Robbins
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela
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.
Ernest Hemingway
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
John Wooden
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand
Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
Johnny Depp
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
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Talent Translations
talent in Dutch is talent, gave, aanleg, begaafdheid
talent in Finnish is kyky
talent in French is talent
talent in German is Talent
talent in Italian is talento
talent in Latin is ingenium
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