Quotes About Talent

One important thing you can do for yourself is to discover your talent early enough and develop it.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Stupidity is like art. Everyone can do it, but only the truly gifted are masters at it.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I have been described as a lighthouse in the middle of a bog: Brilliant but useless.

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

The writer's job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that's part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

Potential is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to God.

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

What really matters is not the pencil but the brain of the person holding it.

Chuck Todd is not alone among journalists with thin academic records and limited experiential backgrounds. Then again, propagandizing does not require exceptional knowledge or talent.

Who knows what somber ancestor had passed on to me this talent, this precocious ear for loss? For a while, because of it, I misheard almost everything.

I have had a "call" to literature, of a low order—i.e. humorous. It is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit… seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures.