Talent Quotes - page 2

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. (Leo Buscaglia)
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. View quote
James Baldwin
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it. View quote
Jules Renard
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. View quote
Jonathan Swift
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. View quote
Sophia Loren
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. View quote
John Wooden
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
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. View quote
Albert Einstein
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. View quote
John F. Kennedy
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world. View quote
Richard Donner
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had. View quote
Berry Gordy
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. View quote
José Martí
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. (Mel Brooks)
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it. View quote
Lin Carter
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent. View quote
Vivienne Westwood