Talent Quotes - Page 6

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.

Alexander Chee

I know how you feel. But people can't surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth... I was made to destroy.

Charles Lee

I wish my talent was something that could be celebrated. You see, I can talk to the dead.

Amy LaPalme

There's this special talent that humans have that they can be unhappy no matter where they are. But humans have another special talent: We can be happy almost anywhere, too. We can be happy because we're not alone.

Stefan Bachmann

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Stella Adler

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

Photography is all about the perspective!

Pradeepa Pandiyan

Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an optimistic outlook.

Auliq-Ice

Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting.

Pawan Mishra

Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it's started to come back to me.

Martha Wells

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

Geraldine Brooks

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.

Conn Iggulden

We live in a culture that celebrates talent more than integrity, but we've got it backward. Talent depreciates over time. So do intellect and appearance. You will eventually lose your strength and lose your looks. You may even lose your mind. But you don't have to lose your integrity. Integrity is the only thing that doesn't depreciate over time. Nothing takes longer to build than a godly reputation. And nothing is destroyed more quickly by one stroke of sin. That's why it must be celebrated and protected above all else.

Mark Batterson

Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men, carried to the summit of the edifice, draw and put up the higher floors, the ordinary artists scattered in the lower floors, or hidden in the obscurity of the foundations, must only seek to improve what cleverer hands have created.

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!

Mehmet Murat ildan

At times, talent is gifted! But mostly, it comes with good practice.

Somya Kedia

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

Gift Gugu Mona

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

Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame.

T.F. Hodge

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious work as his required composition. As a self-described atheist, Bizet felt uneasy and hypocritical writing a religious piece. Instead, he submitted a comic opera. Publicly, the committee accepted, acknowledging his musical talent. Privately, the committee conveyed their displeasure. Thus, early in his career, Bizet displayed an independent spirit that would be reflected in innovative ideas in his opera compos

Georges Bizet

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

Wayde Goodall

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Andy Stanley

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.

Jane Austen

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

Gugu Mona

Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.

Pearl Zhu

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

John W. Gardner

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Sarah Weeks

We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance of her job as guest managing editor, and because she was kept fast at her desk when the rest of us were allowed to fool around….I remember we discussed how the editors treater her differently from the rest of us, as if she had been pre-recognized as someone they were expecting great things of.

Elizabeth Winder

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

Criss Jami

I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.

Amit Kalantri

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

Amit Kalantri

Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.

Mike Norton

Self-discipline is about disciplined thoughts.

Pearl Zhu

Truth recognizes truth, just as a man with real talent is the first to recognize another with real talent. Likewise, superficiality attracts others with an artificial surface. Only the superficial applaud the superficial. A man of true substance rejects the superficial because he seeks only truth and depth. Based on this reasoning, you can easily measure the weight of any man's character just by observing who he admires.

Suzy Kassem

That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

Sara Sheridan

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

Your idea, talent, experience and certificates are not enough. What is needed is a strong passion for driving your idea, talent, experience and your certificates to success.

Oscar Bimpong

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

Gyan Nagpal

When you have no preconceived notion of what you are good at, you are open to life's many possibilities.

Kamaria G. Powell

...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.

Patrick Süskind

Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems.

Santōka Taneda

What I love is the span between 'Action' and 'Cut'. What I do in that span is what I love about my job".

Kunal Karan Kapoor

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Idries Shah

Listening with the focus of actually understanding what the other person is trying to communicate is priceless, a talent that everyone possesses but not something that is practiced enough.

Christine Marie Bryant

That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitation: all his feelings and all his being were shaken to their depths, and he came to know that terrible torment which, by way of a striking exception, sometimes occurs in nature, when a weak talent strains to show itself on too grand a scale and fails; that torment which gives birth to great things in a youth, but, in passing beyond the border of dream, turns into a fruitless yearning; that dreadful torment which makes a man capable of terrible evildoing.

Nikolai Gogol

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

Sara Sheridan

Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

Michael Bassey Johnson

What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted."Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...""What was he like as a person?" asked Dalgliesh."Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity.""A typical writer, in fact?" suggested Dalgliesh mischievously.

P.D. James

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

John Geddes

When it comes to competing with the best and brightest in whatever your talents or educational skills are, you have to have the confidence within yourself that you are able to achieve.

Ellen J. Barrier

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine. He neither endeavours to impose upon you by the cunning devices of an artful impostor, nor by the arrogant airs of an assuming pedant, nor by the confident assertions of a superficial and imprudent pretender. He is not ostentatious even of the abilities which he really possesses. His conversation is simple and modest, and he is averse to all the quackish arts by which other people so frequently thrust themselves into public notice and reputation.

Adam Smith

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

Joyce Rachelle

You know, with talented people....They draw people to themselves, and without even trying to, they tear them to shreds.

Kamoshida Hajime

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Rob Liano

When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.

Sanober Khan

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.

Elizabeth Hand

God expects fruits from every calling, every talent and every gift

Sunday Adelaja

If you submit to your gift, you will become known and influential

Sunday Adelaja

Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it

Sunday Adelaja

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