To verify if a person possesses a certain professional talent is to see whether he can love the tedious labor contained therein (Logan Pearsall Smith).
Being able to do with ease what others consider difficult is a sign of talent; being able to do what others consider impossible is a sign of genius (Amin).
With high skills, one is bold; with poor skills, one is fearful.
Knowing what things should be indicates you are wise; knowing what things actually are indicates you are experienced; knowing how to make things better indicates you are talented (Diderot).
If you hope for success, you must rely on your own abilities (Soviet Union).
The talents required for a general are vastly different from those required for a soldier (Livy).
A bear with a big mouth eats watermelons; a sparrow with a small mouth pecks at sesame seeds.
No one is completely useless, nor is anyone omnipotent.
Those who can do are not necessarily able to speak; those who can speak are not necessarily able to do.
It is impossible for one person to concentrate all talents on himself (Stendhal).
Artistic conception changes divinely, and the brush tip has power to move freely (Song Dynasty, Dai Fugu).
With a soaring pen in all directions, looking down and up, following others is also pitiful (Jin Yuan Haowen).
Initiatives promote the development of creativity (Goethe).
So-called original ability is imitation that has been deeply considered (Voltaire).
Originality is not observing something new for the first time, but observing old things, long known or overlooked by everyone, as new things; this proves a truly original mind (Nietzsche).
Having talent is like pregnancy; only with time can it be seen (Yi Zhongtian).
The most beautiful dowry is talent (Balzac).
Words and phrases are like gold and stone; will and knowledge are the hammer and tongs (Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xuecheng).
Writing is mainly about knowledge; in recognizing the theme and establishing the intention, without high, exquisite, and rigorous knowledge, one cannot hit the key points (Qing Dynasty, Liu Xizai).
Digestion is the standard for eating; ability is the scale for working (Tibetan).
