Talent Quotes

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion or enthusiasm for life. Meanwhile, your talents remain untapped, buried somewhere deep inside. This is an awful way to live.

"Nothing else in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than 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 gap between talent and ego is usually just hot air.

Great companies must have a noble cause. Then it’s the leader’s job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings.

You come to realise there is this huge disparity between what you think about yourself and your work and what other people think about you and your work, at first you either think they're insane or that it's a conspiracy to make you look stupid. Or maybe, just maybe, they're right, and you're sometimes quite good at what you do.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

For the first time, I heard actors saying my lines and my partner’s lines, and it was – it was extremely thrilling because the kids -- most of them -- were too young to change them, so they were actually reading them as written, which was nice, and it hasn’t happened a lot since then.

That’s the hard part – writing is all about the preservation of your own voice. So if you give that voice away by guessing what you think and you think and you think as you go, you’ll have less to say and then it’ll go away completely!

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Nowadays nobody seems to care about talent anymore they’re just happy to be spoonfed shit, it’s like being stuck in X Factor.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

God would not give you the dream in your heart if He didn't give you the TALENT & ABILITIES to make it come true.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.