Talent Quotes - Page 22

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

I had never really heard of Meryl Streep before. Someone told me she was an actress and she'd been in a few things, but I said, you know, whatever. She showed up and she seemed somewhat inexperienced, so I gave her a few pointers, and I think she has a decent career ahead of her. It's always hard to tell these things in Hollywood, but I do think that she has some talent under there. I think she's a diamond in the rough.

No man can discover his own talents.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself.

I have many unrecognized talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.