Talent Quotes - Page 4

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

Zoey Dean

I had no ability, but I was determined to show heart.

Evan Handler

Talent without enthusiasm is likea Ferrari without fuel.

Sebastyne Young

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Marcus Buckingham

But Aunt Habiba said not to worry, that everyone had wonderful things hidden inside. The only difference was that some managed to share those wonderful things, and others did not. Those who did not explore and share the precious gifts within went through life feeling miserable, sad, awkward with others, and angry too. You had to develop a talent, Aunt Habiba said, so that you could give something, share and shine. And you developed a talent by working very hard at becoming good at something. It could be anything - singing, dancing, cooking, embroidering, listening, looking, smiling, waiting, accepting, dreaming, rebelling, leaping. 'Anything you can do well can change your life', said Aunt Habiba.

Fatema Mernissi

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Crazy, he muttered softly, "how much I need you."Crazy, how something like that can feel like a kick in the chest, can hurt that much, can suck all the air right out of your body for a moment. And at the same time, settle over you, around you, so soft and warm and sweet, that you think nothing can ever be as good as this one m

Susan Bischoff

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

Vera Nazarian

Talent is nothing without persistence.

Dean Crawford

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.

James Patterson

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Stephen King

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

Leo Buscaglia

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

Russell Brand

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Annie Dillard

I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, ‘If only she had started out with a good teacher and gotten the proper training, she’d be so much further along!’ But I was wrong about that. She was not the kind of child who could stand proper training. There just happen to be people like that. They’re blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can’t make the effort to systematize it. They end up squandering it in little bits and pieces. I’ve seen my share of people like that. At first you think they’re amazing. Like, they can sight-read some terrifically difficult piece and do a damn good job playing it all the way through. You see them do it, and you’re overwhelmed. you think, ‘I could never do that in a million years.’ But that’s as far as they go. They can’t take it any further. And why not? Because they won’t put in the effort. Because they haven’t had the discipline pounded into them. They’ve been spoiled. They have just enough talent so they’ve been able to play things well without any effort and they’ve had people telling them how great they are from the time they’re little, so hard work looks stupid to them. They’ll take some piece another kid has to work on for three weeks and polish it off in half the time, so the teacher figures they’ve put enough into it and lets them go to the next thing. And they do that in half the time and go on to the next piece. They never find out what it means to be hammered by the teacher; they lose out on a certain element required or character building. It’s a tragedy.

Haruki Murakami

Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.

Alan Rickman

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

Louisa May Alcott

No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.

Enock Maregesi

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

Stephen King

Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

Eliel Pierre

Virginity comes standard. A good head is earned.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hard work is much more important than talent

Carlo Rotella

If talent without hard work was a dead-end street,talent with hard work could only be a highway.

Marko S.

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.

Shane Snow

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise,there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

Keith Peters

There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.

Conor McGregor

Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference

Sunday Adelaja

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Wayde Goodall

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

Sebastyne Young

I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among young people. They say, look at so-and-so, he's a pot head and look what it has done for him. The truth is, he was talented to start with. I mean, if you have vacuity and expand it, you still have vacuity.

Oliver

If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things.

M.F. Moonzajer

You think you have no ‘talent’? Write anyway. lots of people with ‘talent’ don’t actually act on it. As long as you write, you will learn, you will improve, and you will be better than anyone claiming to have ‘talent.

M. Kirin

How could I explain why I'd acted that way? How could I explain how scary it was, to find out that I needed her so much? Was I supposed to tell her how she'd changed everything? Like how U hadn't even realized how bad I felt until she'd made it better, just by looking at me. Like how I thought she was awesome, bad-ass ninja, and what I hated was the fact that I knew I couldn't protect her, when that's all I wanted to do. How could I explain, without sounding like a complete asshole, that I was so afraid of losing her I pushed her away? I couldn't.

Susan Bischoff

Everyone is useful for specific task.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (love love) 'Cause honsetly the truth is that you know I'm never leaving, 'cause your my angel sent from above. (bove bove) Me and you can do no wrong. My money is yours give you a lil more 'cause I love ya, love ya. With me girl is where you belong...-Love Me

Justin Bieber

Digital fit” should be first defined as “mind fit,” and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.

Pearl Zhu

The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

Bruce Springsteen

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Sara Sheridan

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster “genius or special talent,” Noyes was delighted, replying, “We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Sarah Vowell

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

Alexandra Robbins

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Criss Jami

Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness

Seneca

Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

Edith Pargeter

Perfection is doing all that you could. And there's not a single thing more you can do.

Ahmad Ihsan Mohamad

Have you ever taken yourself a bit too seriously, thinking that who you are is actually defined by what you look like, how much talent you have (or don't have), how well known you are (or aren't), or how much money you have (or don't have)? Those are all "garments and labels" you wear during the course of your stay here on this planet, but it's not who you are. At the end of the day, when it's all said and done, you will turn all of that back in just like a car you had on lease.

Dennis Merritt Jones

People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators.

Pearl Zhu

But sometimes, talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose name and voices you'll never hear. - Paul Hudson

Tiffanie DeBartolo

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

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

Meg Wolitzer

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the extinguished sparks of talent blazed up again. The blindfold suddenly fell from his eyes. God! to ruin the best years of his youth so mercilessly; to destroy, to extinguish the spark of fire that had perhaps flickered in his breast, that perhaps would have developed by now into greatness and beauty, that perhaps would also have elicited tears of amazement and gratitude!

Nikolai Gogol

Talent is one thing, personality and attitude is everything!

Lily Amis

When the right stage gets missing, true talent that can grow to inspire, nurture and change lives least gets the right stage to manifest; real deft and dexterity remains latent and people only die with their dreams, abilities and capabilities.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Talents too many, not enough of any.

Naomi Wood

Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition.

Paul Arden

Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.

M.F. Moonzajer

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