Quotes About Talent

It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to native New Yorkers of wealth and social position. Here was a bastard, a newcomer who had arrived as an orphaned immigrant little more than three years earlier. But he was a nova whose writing, speaking, and fighting talents had dazzled more timid men with better claims on command.

Al die beurzen, prijzen en stipendia,' zei hij, 'ben je werkelijk zo naïef te denken dat die bij begaafde studenten terechtkomen? Trouwens, wat is een begaafde student? Een begaafde kontenlikker, als je het mij vraagt.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

The talent of a meat-packer, the morals of a moneychanger and the manners of an undertaker.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Number of Open Mics (NOM)

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

Despite the ongoing risks, during great swaths of its mostly charmed 142 years, Goldman Sachs has been both envied and feared for having the best talent, the best clients, and the best political connections, and for its ability to alchemize them into extreme profitability and market prowess.

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Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: 'the English have no arbitrary dismissal,' he noted, 'and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or resignation. More remarkable still is that they take part in most of the festivals and ceremonies of Muslims and Hindus, mixing with the people. They pay great respect to accomplished scholars of whatever sect.

Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: 'the English have no arbitrary dismissal,' he noted, 'and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or resignation. More remarkable still is

a large and ridiculous gunner told me that I looked like an out-of-work chorus boy. He was very startled when I told him that was exactly what I was, but that I found it easier to get work as a naval officer, a job requiring considerably less talent.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can't pick up a page. All the words slide off.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity