Talent Quotes

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

~ Susan Cain

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

~ Rich Lesser

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

~ Gregor Collins

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

~ Alice Sebold

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

~ Abraham Isaac Kook

Being best at things has nothing to do with talent, it is all about self - discipline and commitment.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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

~ Meg Wolitzer

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~ Kamil Ali

She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan was brilliant at what he did, and he might well have made it even if Ash’s father hadn’t encouraged him, but it really helped that Ethan had grown up in a sophisticated city, and that he had married into a wealthy family. Ash was talented, but not all that talented. This was the thing that no one said, not once. But of course it was fortunate that Ash didn’t have to worry about money while trying to think about art. Her wealthy childhood had given her a head start, and now Ethan had picked up where her childhood had left off.

~ Meg Wolitzer

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think inTherefore threatening ways?

~ William Zinsser

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~ Kamil Ali

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

~ Sara Sheridan

Talent can take you so far, Hardwork can take you ANYWHERE.

~ Hiruma

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

~ Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

What a waste of time it would be to insist that everyone develop each of the specialties we call upon to an equal level. We'd get bogged down in remedial training programs, trying to get the cornet players up to speed with the computer programmers, sacrificing the tends to be exceptional in so many individual situations in order to be average in all of them.

~ Robert Watson

Now if only we stopped for a moment to think, it is quite obvious that there is no merit or design or logic in the way luck and talent are distributed in this world. For every man kissed by the sun there are millions in the shade, and there is no valid reason to rule out-or maintain-the possibility that the one is better than the other.

~ Filippo Bologna

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

~ V.c. Andrews

In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have.

~ Michael Jackson

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without blinking. Sometimes this intensity was charming, in a geeky way, such as when he was explaining the profundity of Bob Dylan's music or why whatever product he was unveiling at that moment was the most amazing thing that Apple had ever made. At other times it could be terrifying, such as when he was fulminating about Google or Microsoft ripping of Apple.

~ Walter Isaacson

Every man, every woman, every child has some talent, some power, some opportunity of getting good and doing good. Each day offers some occasion for using this talent. As we use it, it gradually increases, improves, becomes native to the character. As we neglect it, it dwindles, withers, and disappears. This is the stern but benign law by which we live.

~ James Clarke

Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..

~ Himmilicious

There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.

~ Jonathan Kellerman

The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

~ Tom Rath

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983)

~ Eric Hoffer

A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.

~ Witold Gombrowicz

Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky

~ Zeeshan Ahmed

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.

~ Ian Mcewan

Talent is 98% hard work - even Brel said so. The best signal for lack of talent is therefore quite simply low production. That does of course not mean high production guarantees talent, so something does exist that needs to be present - what is that? Talent and Drive - both are quite useless without the other, but what exactly is 'talent'? I would say its a form of the unconditioned: in some people it survives, even unto old age. Some learn to focus it on a particular craft. But without drive, it still goes nowhere.

~ Martijn Benders

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

~ Andrew James Pritchard

Beauty is a God-given talent that we should all conserve.

~ Moffat Machingura

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

~ Jay Perry

Asking for and receiving help is a way to prime the pump of generosity.

~ Jay Perry

Turn your talent loose with room to run. Talent wants to romp and play.

~ Jay Perry

If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position hire the best writer. it doesn't matter if the person is marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever, their writing skills will pay off. That's because being a good writer is about more than writing clear writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. great writers know how to communicate. they make things easy to understand. they can put themselves in someone else's shoes. they know what to omit. And those are qualities you want in any candidate. Writing is making a comeback all over our society... Writing is today's currency for good ideas.

~ Jason Fried

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

~ Natalie Goldberg

Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent

~ Betty Edwards

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

~ T.s. Eliot