Talent Quotes

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.

It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’‘Of what?’‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.

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'?

i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

We have to believe in us. We're the miracle of modern and changing times. Share your talents and gift, inspire others and be inspired

What Africa lacks is not lack of resources or talent but the lack of strategic leadership.

Hiring should be like dating. A great marriage does not happen in a 30 minutes interview.

All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

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

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

It's just cool to witness talent.

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

Talent is God-given be humble. Fame is man-given be thankful. Conceit is self-given be careful.

I'm just thankful to be blessed with my talent.

I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.

Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

Talent is a by-product of education the quality of a country's human capital depends on it.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.