Talent Quotes

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

Andrew James Pritchard

Real talent harnesses what it has and unlocks what it doesn’t. There is natural ability, there is the discipline that develops natural ability, there is the unending study of one’s craft, and there is the exponential lifting of performance by the selfless combination of efforts.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Brendan Francis

Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your precious something hidden for discovery. When it is discovered, it shall win awe and admiration, and it shall be an inspiration!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.

Christina Engela

Just think of a safe location.""Are there tennis balls in the soup?""Come on, be serious.""A pear camping highway fire mask," he said, more intensely.My heart rate, which had finally started slowing, sped up again.

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

Ayn Rand

Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.

David E. Wilkins

We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength with due fear courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above shall never know how to use what he has been giving efficiently and effectively

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Okay, so anagrams. That’s one. Got any other charming talents?” she asked, and now he felt confident.Finally, Colin turned to her, gathering in his gut the slim measure of courage available to him, and said, “Well, I’m a fair kisser.

Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone’s potential, talent and position in history.

Dejan Stojanovic

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Discover your gift if you don’t want to live the life of an ordinary person

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t have to compete with any one. Seek to outdo your own performance. You will always be happy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.

Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent.

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

When you are genuinely preoccupied in serving others using your talent and experience, doors that you have never knocked start to open up...

Assegid Habtewold

Experience, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now:freely exchangeable currency.

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.

Israelmore Ayivor

You can go with an empty pocket and come back heavily loaded if you allow your passion to escort you!

Israelmore Ayivor

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "is this what I was sent to do? What do I have to have it do well?" This is potential.

Israelmore Ayivor

Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.

Israelmore Ayivor

Before God put that dream into you, he did not ask for the approval of anybody... It means anyone who tells you "it's impossible" is not from God!

Israelmore Ayivor

Everything that the spider needs to make a spider-web is not found in the housefly... it's right there in the spider! Whatever you need to make impacts is in you! Discover yourself and make a difference!

Israelmore Ayivor

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent and creativity. Talent may well have its neurological correlates and can be studied as “given” to a person. A man or woman may have talent whether he or she uses it or not; talent can probably be measured in the person as such. But creativity can be seen only in the act. If we were purists, we would not speak of a “creative person,” but only of a creative act.

Rollo May

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!

Michael Bassey Johnson

When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destination. The greater the quantity of your oil, the more you cover the distance, and the more you cover the distance, the closer you get to your success.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Share your skills, inspire a change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have great talents. Aim for God best for your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom is merely the counter power used against on your unique talents to prevent them turning into your deadly curses.

An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You possess great strength, great spirit and great soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Excellence is the best ink with which to make your mark in the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Excellence is the key that opens successes' door.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you apply that gift you possess that comes so easily to you and can be used anywhere, anytime to help someone else; maybe your family, your community, your city, state, country or the world in general... that is your PURPOSE.

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

Matshona Dhliwayo

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""That’s because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors," said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent.

Orson Scott Card

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Your special spiritual gifts and talents are your calling.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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