Talent

There is nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself - Johann Sebastian Bach

Every gift has been heaped on his cradle: absolute sanity and the deepest sensibility, the clearest vision and the quickest responsiveness, penetrating insight and unfailing generosity of judgement, an exquisite perception of the world and an unerring instinct for the significant, for the essential in the life of men and women, the clearest mind, the warmest heart, the largest sympathy - and all that in perfect measure. There's enough there to ruin the prospects of any writer - Conrad on Turgenev http://www.bryanappleyard.com/blog/2008/09/conrad-on-turgenev.php

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 Louise Bombeck, American author, humourist

There is nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself - Johann Sebastian Bach

The unskilled blacksmith blames the iron - Aligieri Dante

Talent works, genius creates - Robert Schumann

Skill is the new source of security in the 21st Century - Morty Bahr, president, Communications Workers Association

Man's capacities have never been measured, nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedent so little has been tried - Henry David Thoreau