Talent Quotes
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. (Quote by - Warren G. Bennis)
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Simon, You Dont Know Class! My Lips are big, but my talent is bigger.I Broke my shoe! (Quote by - Fantasia Barrino)
Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent. (Quote by - Michael Caine)
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. (Quote by - John W. Gardner)
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A relentless talent for tactlessness. (Quote by - Barbara Tuchman)
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. (Quote by - John Wooden)
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Concealed talent brings no reputation. (Quote by - Erasmus)
I really loved being on strictly come dancing and can't really believe that I lasted as long as I did - I guess I must have had some decent talent for it afterall! (Quote by - Carol Smilie)
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Quote by - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)
The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent. (Quote by - Britney Spears)
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. (Quote by - G H Lewes)
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty both good and bad, strengthens by exercise. (Quote by - Anne Bronte)
Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
If you can't excell with talent, triumph with effort. (Quote by - Dave Weinbaum)
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. (Quote by - Thomas Wolfe)
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision. (Quote by - Veronica Lake)
I do not want to die ... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. (Quote by - Kathe Kollwitz)
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Quote by - Hector Berlioz)
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent. (Quote by - Michael Young)
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. (Quote by - French Proverb)
People stereotype pop stars, but Christina [Aguilera] proves them wrong with her unique style and talent. (Quote by - Sarah Michelle Gellar)
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-lytton)
Rob Key has got a lot of talent but I don't think he shone in South Africa once Mark Butcher went home. (Quote by - Dominic Cork)
There is nothing new in art except talent. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
Suddenly it became a one horse fight. [More mixed metaphors from the 'talent' at the Beeb] (Quote by - Steve Bunce)
I never starved - And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image, for instance, and I'm proud of that. (Quote by - Jeff Daniels)
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. (Quote by - Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
When God gave him this enormous footballing talent he took his brain out at the same time to equal it up. (Quote by - Tony Banks)
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.)
The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. (Quote by - Marguerite Gardiner)
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. (Quote by - Hermann Hesse)
If I had the choice of hiring someone with commections or someone with skills and talent, I'd go with the latter. (Quote by - Chip Goodyear)
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
If you have a talent for a game, then why couldn't you do it in any era? (Quote by - John Virgo)
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. (Quote by - Sir Isaac Newton)
Talent works, genius creates. (Quote by - Robert A. Schumann)
I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain. (Quote by - Shania Twain)
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
I am no more humble than my talents require. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential (Quote by - Gordon Brown)
In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living. (Quote by - Paul Potts)
It takes little talent to see what is under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in what direction to point that organ. (Quote by - W H Auden)
I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. (Quote by - Mickey Rourke)
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people (Quote by - Joely Fisher)
Talent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent"; my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. (Quote by - Brazzzle Jean-Paul Sartre)
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Quote by - Owen Meredith)
I would love to sing with Christina [Aguilera]... she has so much talent... she has an amazing voice. (Quote by - Jessica Simpson)
An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent. (Quote by - Norma Shearer)
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you (Quote by - Malcolm Cowley)
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. (Quote by - Robert Half)
Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. (Quote by - James Arthur Baldwin)
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment. (Quote by - John Gibbons)
A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude. (Quote by - Tom Brady)
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. (Quote by - Frederick W. Faber)
Conciseness is the sister of talent. (Quote by - Anton Checkhov)
Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent. (Quote by - Esther B. Fein)
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. (Quote by - Edmond de Goncourt)
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
Most of us would kill ourselves if we were as talent-free as Elizabeth Hurley. (Quote by - Claudia Shear)
It's not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent too. (Quote by - Sir Alexander Korda)
The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit. (Quote by - S.c. Tallentyre)
Genius is talent provided with ideals. (Quote by - William Somerset Maugham)
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Quote by - Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. (Quote by - Stephen King)
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too. (Quote by - Jack Welch)
Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something? (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent (Quote by - Honore de Balza)
Paul Hunter was a man who had everything going for him - an outstanding talent, good looks, fame, riches, charm and a beautiful wife. (Quote by - Rodney Walker)
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. (Quote by - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Competition is the whetstone of talent. (Quote by - Proverb)
If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him. (Quote by - Robbie Savage)
God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools let them use their talents (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent (Quote by - John McEnroe)
A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty (Quote by - Nathaniel Emmons)
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary (Quote by - Jessamyn West)
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. (Quote by - Seneca)
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. (Quote by - Jonathan Coe)
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. (Quote by - William Bernbach)
Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I believe that every person is born with talent. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)
If you don't realize there is always someone who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for others' talents (Quote by - Hortense Canady)
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
No man can discover his own talents. (Quote by - Brendan Francis)
The crowning blessing of life - to be born with a bias to some pursuit. (Quote by - S. C. Tallentyre)
A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognize his talent winds up a legend. (Quote by - Lisa Edmondson)
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. (Quote by - Isaac Stern)
All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
My bad habits aren't my title, my strengths and talents are my title. (Quote by - Vervain Layne Staley)
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. (Quote by - Maurice Baring)
Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain. (Quote by - Mike Ditka)
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
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. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us. (Quote by - Sven Goran Eriksson)
Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. (Quote by - James Agate)
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent. (Quote by - Ruth Handler)
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world. (Quote by - Christiane Collage)
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown (Quote by - Anatole France)
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. (Quote by - John Gardner)
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success (Quote by - Ingrid Bergman)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
