Talent Quotes - Page 2

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

She herself had short red hair and a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of white

Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.

There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.

Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.

You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Comparison is waste of energy. Every individual is unique with unique talents. Find your passion and live your best life.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

Our fulfillment in life and career meets with success when we give our best as per our unique talent, gifting, strengths while willing to team up with others in the areas of our limitations...

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

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

Talent is nothing without persistence.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

Success is never about money, it's always about talent.

Wisdom is merely the counter power used against on your unique talents to prevent them turning into your deadly curses.

Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.

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

Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.

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.

You need to determine the field of your gift and enter into the realm of experts for that calling

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in Eng

An organization can only grow and set an exemplary model for development with the help of right talent pool.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

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.

I have what takes to get the job done.

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

If a great mansion is located in a wrong environment, it loses its real value! So it is, when a great and true genius fails to get the right stage, its real value is least seen!

Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.

Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.

Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

Don't judge a lion by its swimming abilities.

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.

To have a mission is to find your own gift

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Find the right surroundings, the people who will help you to carry out your mission and realize your gift

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine. He neither endeavours to impose upon you by the cunning devices of an artful impostor, nor by the arrogant airs of an assuming pedant, nor by the confident assertions of a superficial and imprudent pretender. He is not ostentatious even of the abilities which he really possesses. His conversation is simple and modest, and he is averse to all the quackish arts by which other people so frequently thrust themselves into public notice and reputation.

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.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

I took a break, stretched, tried again, failed, kicked over the music stand (I am not proud of that), and wonder whether I had reached the limits of my musical ability. Maybe I'd never had any. Surely someone with a modicum of talent wouldn't have to work this hard.

The Wizard of Oz teaches us a valuable lesson about what makes a journey meaningful. It is not mere possession, but also awareness of our unique gifts that enables us to put them to use. We learn that conquering trepidation and taking that first step is the only way to come to self-awareness, master our talents, and seize opportunities to support each other to success.

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.

God expects fruits from every calling, every talent and every gift

God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!

We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life

There is a greatness inherent within you. That greatness comes from God. He has bestowed each of us with unique gifts and talents to be used for kingdom building here on earth.

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.

Different things drive me at different points in time. Hopes, the things you envision, and even things that pull you down" - Kunal Karan Kapoor