Talent Quotes - Page 12

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.

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.

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.

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

Because you have honored God, He will put you in a position you never could have attained on your own. It’s not just your education, not just your talent, or the family you come from. It’s the hand of God shifting you to a new level of your destiny.

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

A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

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)

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

Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.

All great and successful people stayed alone with themselves to develop their gift

My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (love love) 'Cause honsetly the truth is that you know I'm never leaving, 'cause your my angel sent from above. (bove bove) Me and you can do no wrong. My money is yours give you a lil more 'cause I love ya, love ya. With me girl is where you belong...-Love Me

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

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.

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare

Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!

Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the extinguished sparks of talent blazed up again. The blindfold suddenly fell from his eyes. God! to ruin the best years of his youth so mercilessly; to destroy, to extinguish the spark of fire that had perhaps flickered in his breast, that perhaps would have developed by now into greatness and beauty, that perhaps would also have elicited tears of amazement and gratitude!

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it

Nature or nurture? A talent needs both.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

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

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.

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

Talent is part of the equation, but when you combine talent with accountability and authenticity, it is tough to beat.