Talent Quotes

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.[Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille,Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.

It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

Great engineers are a huge multiplier.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.

'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.'Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

Ronaldo can do whatever he wants as a footballer. There are some things he does with the ball that make me touch my head and wonder how he did it.

Nobody wants to give up good players.

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Talent is culture with insolence.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

Good writing comes from good talent.

I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Let the path be open to talent.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.