Talent Quotes - Page 2

LATENT TALENTAnagram of complacencyKamil Ali

She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan was brilliant at what he did, and he might well have made it even if Ash’s father hadn’t encouraged him, but it really helped that Ethan had grown up in a sophisticated city, and that he had married into a wealthy family. Ash was talented, but not all that talented. This was the thing that no one said, not once. But of course it was fortunate that Ash didn’t have to worry about money while trying to think about art. Her wealthy childhood had given her a head start, and now Ethan had picked up where her childhood had left off.

Meg Wolitzer

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think inTherefore threatening ways?

William Zinsser

CRITIC OR CITRIC?Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talentedKamil Ali

Kamil Ali

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

Sara Sheridan

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.

Robert Watson

Now if only we stopped for a moment to think, it is quite obvious that there is no merit or design or logic in the way luck and talent are distributed in this world. For every man kissed by the sun there are millions in the shade, and there is no valid reason to rule out-or maintain-the possibility that the one is better than the other.

Filippo Bologna

Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

V.C. Andrews

Talent comes from education you had,languages you know and finally from skills you gain in your life.

Adriano Corso

Employee engagement takes mind, heart and hands unification.

Pearl Zhu

It don't matter about all that anyway," Armstrong added. "You think it do, but it don't. A man ain't just his one talent. Lil Louis needs you. And Jones look to you like you his brother. You got the talent of making others your kin, your blood. Music, well that's different. I reckon it got its own worth, but it ain't a man's whole life.""Aww hell, Louis," I thought. "Ain't nothing else I want.

Esi Edugyan

If I had to drink water like my cat, I’d croak over dead in no time. Maybe it’s like eating rice with chop sticks? Both are absurdly difficult and unfathomable for me. Not that I am into ‘ease’ (clearly a review of my life shouts otherwise), just some things obviously take time and talent I do not inherently possess. I move on to things I AM designed for!

Rhonda Louise Robbins

…to own only a little talent…was an awful, plaguing thing….being only a little bit special meant you expected too much, most of the time.

Mary Robinson Reynolds

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.

Ken Goldstein

I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death. But Moses’s pictures dripped with life and reminded us of our loss.

Amy Harmon

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

Dolly Parton

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we make a small commitment towards keeping our talent alive, one day it becomes a beautiful gift, which nourishes us, makes our lives complete.

Subroto Bagchi

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

Success is never about money, it's always about talent.

Junaid Raza

It is the time to tremendous awakening toward “inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.

Pearl Zhu

Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you’re lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent’s preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it’s supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn.[…]If talent’s the foundation you rely on, and yet it’s so unreliable that you have no idea what’s going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?

Haruki Murakami

I believe my using the talent He's given me is His will for my life. Why else would He have bothered giving it to me?

Dawn Crandall

Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof! You are in deep, ice-cold water frozen like a dead herring. Intelligence is a harder gift, for this you must work, you must practise it, challenge it and maybe towards the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow whereas intelligence is the substance.

Bryce Courtenay

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Karen Maitland

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.

Tom Rath

Your life is your song, sing it loud!

Rob Liano

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The world won't be loyal and burden itself to those who are having one skill and talent any longer. Make yourself useful and indispensable...

Assegid Habtewold

Talent is nice to have, perseverance is even better.

Martin Limbeck

If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.

Beau Sides

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.

Dolly Parton

Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!

Ramana Pemmaraju

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Chuck Palahniuk

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare

Jeffrey Overstreet

Some might debate whether people are born with talent, or whether it is developed. Toyota’s stand is clear—give us the seeds of talent and we will plant them, tend the soil, water and nurture the seedlings, and eventually harvest the fruits of our labor... Of course the wise farmer selects only the best seeds, but even with careful selection there is no guarantee that the seeds will grow, or that the fruits they yield will be sweet, and yet the effort must be made because it provides the best chance of developing a strong crop.

Jeffrey K. Liker

Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

Carol S. Dweck

To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.

Fennel Hudson

When we stop pursuing God`s purpose, our gifts and talent are misdirected.

Sunday Adelaja

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Contrary to popular belief, someone being an asshole, jerk, immature, or rude does not contradict or degrade their talents.

Franbunny Alice Viera

Strangers can be consequential when you want to practice an atrophied or unexplored facet of you, as they don’t know how you usually act.

Kare Anderson

I have always seen talented person being ignored.

Srinivas Shenoy

She looked as if she were in the middle of posing for an unbelievably glamorous photo shoot. Then again, she always did. It was her talent. Clary, however, was staring stubbornly up into Isabelle’s face and talking to her. Simon thought Clary would get her way and get Isabelle to pay attention to her eventually. That was her talent.

Cassandra Clare

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.

Zhuangzi

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams of childhood trauma—that becoming a writer (or a painter, actor, director, dancer, and so on) is a direct result of conscious will. Of course there has to be some talent involved, but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force—a force so great the knife is not really cutting at all but bludgeoning and breaking (and after two or three of these gargantuan swipes it may succeed in breaking itself…which may be what happened to such disparate writers as Ross Lockridge and Robert E. Howard). Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle. No writer, painter, or actor—no artist—is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is “genius”), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.

Stephen King

I don't think about a role as positive or negative. If I can play it convincingly, then I feel satisfied as an actor

Kunal Karan Kapoor

Different things drive me at different points in time. Hopes, the things you envision, and even things that pull you down" - Kunal Karan Kapoor

Kunal Karan Kapoor

You start off with a little spark, and it's whether or not you nurture that spark. You have to expand it and work on it

Ed Sheeran

The ability to be emotive comes from within...it's innate".

Kunal Karan Kapoor

Picture sometimes says something that connects with people. Connection, that is what it is all about in the end".

Kunal Karan Kapoor

He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn’t the killing that stayed on his mind, it was the spilled talent. A lifetime of honing and shaping torn apart in less than a second. All those stories, all those images, and what came out looked like so much oatmeal. What was the point?

Stephen King

my talent is my pride

Jesustibab

Talented person is talented everywhere.

Lion Feuchtwanger

when you help a child develop their talents, you are creating a better tomorrow.

Jesustibab

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