Talent Quotes
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If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.
Stephen Covey -
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
Eugene Delacroix
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Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown -
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.
Wolf Kahn -
I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.
Noureddine Morceli -
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
Brigham Young -
We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.
Ray Bradbury
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McKinty is an exciting new talent.
Ed McBain -
Berry Gordy discovered more superstars than anyone I know. I grew up in that environment, and I know you can develop talent and market it.
Suzanne de Passe -
You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.
Haruki Murakami -
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
Ezra Pound -
When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.
Stephen Covey -
The good show is not about people fighting or getting drunk or throwing up on each other, or hating each other - it's about celebrating people's talent.
Cat Deeley
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
Steve Martin -
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.
Wole Soyinka -
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
Stephen Covey -
We just assume all the great actors are in New York first and then L.A. second, and it's so not true. There's such amazing talent everywhere. It's exciting that now that there are these sort of new Hollywoods or new filmmaking communities that really benefit from these great faces and character actors and leading actors that just are fresh and exciting and bring an authenticity to the piece.
Sandra Bullock -
When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.
Thiago Silva
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
Dolly Parton -
The good is where American dream is alive and kicking. You can be any race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation - it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. If you have a talent and you have a passion and you're prepared to work hard, you can be anything you want to be. That's what I like about being in America.
Cat Deeley -
I've always been of the opinion that great talent can't be held down.
Paul Heyman -
Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.
George Elliott Clarke