Talent Quotes

...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...

~ Morgan Matson

Nature or nurture? A talent needs both.

~ Fennel Hudson

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

~ Uzoma Nnadi

A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

~ Jane Austen

Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

~ L.l. Caulton

In every competition, it's not just a great deal of talent that you need. Everyone who joins have that or else they would not be so confident to be in the race. Focus though is the one thing that most people don't have. So you have to stay the most focused. Do not stray from your goal. If you want to win the game, you have to be in the game.

~ Laarni Venus Marie Nillama

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

~ Henry Rollins

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

~ Honoré De Balzac

You can do things. Do you know this?Do you believe it?You should.It’s true.You can do great things.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

So, each of us has a special gift and it takes time to discover it

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you discover the gift inside you, you have to submit yourself to the gift and improve it

~ Sunday Adelaja

Discover your gift and talent, then start a process of production with it if you desire to be prosperous

~ Sunday Adelaja

Until you begin to sow yourself, ability, gifts, talent into that land God has called you into, prosperity will then be yours

~ Sunday Adelaja

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you ignore your gift, you runaway from your purpose.

~ Turcois Ominek

It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety, TV confuses people.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

~ Gustave Flaubert

When we dedicate our talent to serving a neighbor, it is possibly one of the highest forms of worship; something sacred transpires when we sacrifice our time and dedicate our God-given loves and talents to one another.

~ Matt Litton

Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone’s potential, talent and position in history.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

You have divine abilities for a great mission.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.

~ Orrin Woodward

Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

~ Orrin Woodward

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that, it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

~ Pablo Casals

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

~ Susanna Kaysen

Okay, so anagrams. That’s one. Got any other charming talents?” she asked, and now he felt confident.Finally, Colin turned to her, gathering in his gut the slim measure of courage available to him, and said, “Well, I’m a fair kisser.

~ John Green

failure is costly, both to society and to individuals. Pretending that all people are equal in their abilities will not change the fact that a person with an average IQ is unlikely to become a theoretical physicist, or the fact that a person with a low level of music ability is unlikely to become a concert pianist. It makes more sense to pay attention to people’s abilities and their likelihood of achieving certain goals, so people can make good decisions about the goals they want to spend their time, money, and energy pursuing

~ David Hambrick

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

~ Gyan Nagpal

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

~ Gyan Nagpal

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-traumatic cost. Only such individuals as always already bring along much more injury than could be caused by mere cognitive attacks on their narcissistic system have an apparently free backstage pass to it. Such candidates, like the highly talented of a special type, obtain their degree in wound studies free of charge. For them psychical sacrifices that only affect the cognitive immunity-shield appear to be forms of relief - for which reason they move about in the region of obscure theory like fish in water.

~ Peter Sloterdijk

Talent does not search for the person, in fact the person needs to search for the talent inside him and take it out to show the world.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to suit them--but it's foolishly naive to expect wolves to obey.

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

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

~ Teresa Collins

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.

~ Dame Edna Everage

Every time it’s the same. It’s easy to prove to myself that good pictures are elusive, but I can never quite believe they’re also inevitable. It would be a lot easier for me to believe they were if I also believed that they came as a result of my obvious talent, that I was extraordinary in some way. Artists go out of their way to reinforce the perception that good art is made by singular people, people with an exceptional gift. But I don’t believe I am that exceptional, so what is this that I’m making?

~ Sally Mann

The glory that is given to God by the works of his creation is what we call an “external glory.” It is something outside of God. It doesn’t actually add anything to God. It is very much like an artist who has a great talent for painting and a mind full of beautiful images. If the artist puts some of those images on canvas for people to look at and admire, it still hasn’t added anything to the artist himself. It hasn’t made him any better or more wonderful than he was before (p. 5).

~ Leo J. Trese

When a man devotes himself body and spirit to a single object, if he has training and aptitude, no matter how mediocre he may be in ordinary affairs, he will produce something so nearly akin to a work of genius as to deceive half the judges who think themselves competent to decide between genius and talent.(The Phantom Model)

~ Hume Nisbet