Quotes About Talent

The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.

Day after day we read about them, each new man more brilliant than the last. They were not just an all-star first team, but an all-star second team as well. There were counts kept on how many Rhodes scholars there were in the Administration, how many books by members of the new Administration (even the Postmaster, J. Edward Day, had written a novel, albeit a bad one).

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.

He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

The difference between a topflight creative man and the hack is this ability to express powerful meanings indirectly

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The best and the most talented in the pastoral ministry and in denominational hierarchies harm themselves and harm the church most through their unrestrained ego and unwillingness to step off the high places. Sexual sin gets the press, but ego sin kills the church.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty.

I said he's the best at what he does. Not at what I do.

But, as Uri Geller seemed to demonstrate, certain talented individuals might possess "volitional control" such that they could impose some order on the usually random quantum motions. Some

Talent – it doesn't just achieve results, it attracts other gifted people and helps create an environment that people want to be in.

Hay que dejar que los talentos decidan la orientación del trabajo y no al revés, decía.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

There is no off position on the genius

Who knows what any man can do?

God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

Every night I pray to God: 'Please, no more wack MC's.'

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.

My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.