“Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.”

— Edgar Degas

posthumous quotes, The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas', (1961)

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French artist 1834–1917

Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

Colleen McCullough (1937–2015) Australian author

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“... I have said for twenty-five or thirty years that the one thing I would really like to know before I die is why the monster group exists.”

John Horton Conway (1937) British mathematician

[Life, Death and the Monster - Numberphile, 9 May 2014, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCe5HUObD4]

“It is the things which Ausonius reveals unconsciously that win him liking, not those which he sets out to celebrate with a kind of innocent pomp: not the chair of rhetoric at twenty-five, nor the imperial tutorship in his fifties, nor the consulship at sixty-nine, but that he loved and taught rhetoric all his life, and kept his simplicity.”

Ausonius (310–395) poet

Helen Waddell, Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943), p. 291.
Criticism

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal

“The author of The Prophet not only has the good luck to have talent, he has also the talent to have good luck.”

Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) French Romantic composer

L'auteur de ce Prophète a non seulement le bonheur d'avoir du talent, mais aussi le talent d'avoir du bonheur.
Les soirées de l'orchestre (1852), ch. 5 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/SO05.htm; Jacques Barzun (trans.) Evenings with the Orchestra (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) p. 62.

“Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.”

A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad

No. 2, st. 2-3.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“It is my belief… that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I. Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.”

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent toartistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it, but to nurture it is much more difficult.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

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