Talent Quotes

All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.

Anne Brontë

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

Anton Chekhov

Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Willa Cather

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Aldous Huxley

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

Hector Berlioz

A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.

Charles Horton Cooley

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Erica Jong

The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

S. C. Tallentyre

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Erasmus

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What Africa lacks is not lack of resources or talent but the lack of strategic leadership.

Oscar Bimpong

We have to believe in us. We're the miracle of modern and changing times. Share your talents and gift, inspire others and be inspired

Val Uchendu

You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.

Tom Rath

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

Natalie Goldberg

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

Betty Edwards

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

T.S Eliot

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

Orrin Woodward

If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.

Keri Arthur

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

Richard Russo

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

Hiroko Sakai

It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent

Josh Stern

Don't you ever get in trouble for things like that at the school for the Incredibly gifted?" Jane asked. "No," Merissa said sadly. "Our talent is mischief, so whenever we do something bad they just encourage us to try harder.

Lizzie K. Foley

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

Shinichi Suzuki

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

Fulton J. Sheen

How did the hearing go?” she asked.“We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.”“The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours,” William corrected.“Yes, but ‘we die at dawn the day after tomorrow’ doesn’t sound nearlyas dramatic.”“Does it have to be dramatic all the time?” Catherine murmured.“Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine ismaking melodramatic statements.

Ilona Andrews

I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’‘Of what?’‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.

Kirsten Kaschock

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

Abraham Verghese

i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

Darnell Lamont Walker

In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have.

Michael Jackson

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without blinking. Sometimes this intensity was charming, in a geeky way, such as when he was explaining the profundity of Bob Dylan's music or why whatever product he was unveiling at that moment was the most amazing thing that Apple had ever made. At other times it could be terrifying, such as when he was fulminating about Google or Microsoft ripping of Apple.

Walter Isaacson

Every man, every woman, every child has some talent, some power, some opportunity of getting good and doing good. Each day offers some occasion for using this talent. As we use it, it gradually increases, improves, becomes native to the character. As we neglect it, it dwindles, withers, and disappears. This is the stern but benign law by which we live.

James Clarke

Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..

Himmilicious

There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.

Jonathan Kellerman

The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

Tom Rath

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983)

Eric Hoffer

A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.

Bryant McGill

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.

Witold Gombrowicz

Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky

Zeeshan Ahmed

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.

Ian McEwan

Talent is 98% hard work - even Brel said so. The best signal for lack of talent is therefore quite simply low production. That does of course not mean high production guarantees talent, so something does exist that needs to be present - what is that? Talent and Drive - both are quite useless without the other, but what exactly is 'talent'? I would say its a form of the unconditioned: in some people it survives, even unto old age. Some learn to focus it on a particular craft. But without drive, it still goes nowhere.

Martijn Benders

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

Andrew James Pritchard

Beauty is a God-given talent that we should all conserve.

Moffat Machingura

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

Jay Perry

Asking for and receiving help is a way to prime the pump of generosity.

Jay Perry

Turn your talent loose with room to run. Talent wants to romp and play.

Jay Perry

If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position hire the best writer. it doesn't matter if the person is marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever, their writing skills will pay off. That's because being a good writer is about more than writing clear writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. great writers know how to communicate. they make things easy to understand. they can put themselves in someone else's shoes. they know what to omit. And those are qualities you want in any candidate. Writing is making a comeback all over our society... Writing is today's currency for good ideas.

Jason Fried

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

Nathanael West

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.

Mark Twain

He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.

George Saunders

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

Susan Cain

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

Rich Lesser

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

Gregor Collins

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

Alice Sebold

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Abraham Isaac Kook

I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.

Meg Wolitzer

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