Talent Quotes - Page 19

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

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

Whoever is not able to sacrifice, has no talent for love.

This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

So much technology, so little talent.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!