Talent Quotes

It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks.

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.

We are liberated by the examples of the brave, the talented, and the successful if we allow ourselves that freedom.

Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!

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.

She herself had short red hair and a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of white

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

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

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.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.

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

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

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

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.

What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment.

A system should be viable, it should let your dream to be developed and born

Talent is a word lazy people use to explain why they can’t do things.

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

You are called to serve people and humanity with your talent

Excellence is the key that opens successes' door.

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

Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes — ah, there's a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that's genuinely goodFrom one that's base but merely has succeeded.

His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors act intelligent, but Philip was the real thing: a shining, artistic polymath with an intelligence that came at you like a pair of headlights and enveloped you from the moment he grabbed your hand, put a huge arm round your neck and shoved a cheek against yours; or if the mood took him, hugged you to him like a big, pudgy schoolboy, then stood and beamed at you while he took stock of the effect. (About Philip Seymour Hoffman)

A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.

Answer the question “ what am I living for?” and become a master in this field, serve others with your gift, because you were created exactly with this goal

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

Help me, Lord, in times when I am uninspired to see things differently.

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

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

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.

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.

Pride is a very dangerous disease that can turn your talent, asset, and achievements into a handicap.

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

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

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

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!

The Wizard of Oz teaches us a valuable lesson about what makes a journey meaningful. It is not mere possession, but also awareness of our unique gifts that enables us to put them to use. We learn that conquering trepidation and taking that first step is the only way to come to self-awareness, master our talents, and seize opportunities to support each other to success.

Self-leadership is about digging out your hidden endowment and making them known and useful to those who need it most.

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'?

(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) 'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'(pause)'No. Magic possesses them'.

Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

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.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.

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

I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.

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

If you do not carry out your mission, your gift to the world will be buried with other riches

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Practice begins when you get it right.

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

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

There is a greatness inherent within you. That greatness comes from God. He has bestowed each of us with unique gifts and talents to be used for kingdom building here on earth.