Synonyms for talents
tal·ents

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1. talents

   Genius is exalted intellectual power capable of operating independently of tuition and training, and marked by an extraordinary faculty for original creation, invention, discovery, expression, etc. Talent is marked mental ability, and in a special sense, a particular and uncommon aptitude for some special mental work or attainment. Genius is higher than talent, more spontaneous, less dependent upon instruction, less amenable to training; talent is largely the capacity to learn, acquire, appropriate, adapt oneself to demand. Yet the genius that has won the largest and most enduring success has been joined with tireless industry and painstaking. Compare synonyms for MIND; POWER.

   Synonyms:
   genius, talent

   Antonyms:
   dulness, folly, imbecility, obtuseness, senselessness, stupidity

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1. List of paraphrases for "talents":

   talent, skills, professionals, personnel, manpower, abilities, talented

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1. Oscar Levant:

   I am no more humble than my talents require.

2. Frank Pomeroy:

   I have many reasons why not to do this. But I feel like out of duty and out of obedience to what the Lord has called me to do, and then, to use the talents that I just shared with you guys, the talents that God has given me to glorify him. I feel compelled.

3. Sir William Alton Jones:

   The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

4. Goethe:

   Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

5. Henry van Dyke:

   Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.