Talent Quotes

• The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Done
  • Power
  • Genius

• By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

  

  Tacitus
  • Talent
  • Confirm
  • Punishing

• Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

  

  Abhinav Bindra
  • Practice
  • Talent
  • Perseverance

• I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Talent
  • Inventive
  • Phrenology

• In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Work
  • True
  • Strive

• If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Opportunity
  • Talent
  • If You

• This project showcases the level of talent in the county schools.

  

  John Whiting
  • Project
  • Level
  • County

• He Belafonte was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Trying
  • Teacher
  • Advice

• It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Personality
  • Talent
  • Commonplace

• The most grateful things in life for a musician like me is to know that you have someone in the family who have possibility to continue your talent ... that's my son.

  

  Fariz RM
  • Son
  • Talent
  • Continue

• I reckon he’s jealous, because he can see you have more talent than he’s got in his little finger.

  

  Cathy Hopkins
  • You
  • Jealous
  • Finger

• If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Men
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Talent
  • Journalist
  • Thousand

• We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Children's lies are signs of great talent.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Lies
  • Talent
  • Children's

• Felix is one of those guys who comes along every 10 or 20 years. He's a tremendous talent -- for his age, unbelievable. And he's handled all this hype like a champ.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Talent
  • Champ

• My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Lies
  • Lying
  • Facts

• I'm comfortable that we've got the appropriate wage investments to get the talent we need.

  

  Doug McMillon
  • Talent
  • Wage
  • Investments

• Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Enjoy
  • Satisfaction
  • Mannerisms

• Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what hed done the night before. I thought, I can do that! I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Business
  • Night
  • Thought

• To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Unique
  • Acceptance

• I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

  

  Mike Watt
  • Thinking
  • Middle
  • Finger

• Our philosophy is to attract top talent and incentivise them to succeed. We have some of the top talent in the entire industry.

  

  Vivek Ramaswamy
  • Philosophy
  • Talent
  • Attract

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