Talent Quotes

What's talent but the ability to get away with something?

~ Tennessee Williams

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

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

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

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 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

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

~ Nathanael West

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.

~ Mark Twain

He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.

~ George Saunders