Quotes About Talent

La vanidad echa a perder las mejores cualidades. El talento y la bondad nunca pasan inadvertidos y, aunque así fuera, la conciencia de tenerlos y hacer buen uso de ellos debería bastar. Las virtudes quedan ensalzadas por la modestia.

talent isn't genius and you can't make it so

Nat played away and never minded anyone, while his eyes shone, his cheeks reddened, and his thin fingers flew, as he hugged the old fiddle and made it speak to all their hearts the language that he loved.

Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You're ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho' I don't know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

Where Bill had squandered his considerable talents, John had succeeded on a scale that made Bill look cheap and tawdry.

Rockefeller was convinced that he had a God-given talent for making money, was obligated to develop it, and was liberally rewarded by God—all compatible with Baptist doctrine.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27. About eleven minutes later he was writing his own music.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ya lo señaló la formidable (y depresiva) Clarice Lispector: «La vocación es diferente del talento. Se puede tener vocación y no tener talento. Es decir, se puede ser llamado sin saber cómo ir».

Este tipo de cosas ha pasado tan a menudo en la historia de la ciencia que el hecho de minimizar el talento, la inteligencia y la contribución de las mujeres científicas debería considerarse un error sistémico.»

Les métaphysiciens sont des musiciens sans dons musicaux.

Metaphysiker sind Musiker ohne musikalische Fähigkeit.

Sweeties were a breakfast cereal. They did not snap,crackle or pop, or do anything the more talented cereals did.

It takes a talent to doubt, it requires no talent at all to despair (pp515)

Because he did have that gift, truly he did, he was the Man of a Thousand Voices and a Voice. If you wanted to know how your ketchup bottle should talk in its television commercial, if you were unsure as to the ideal voice for your packet of garlic-flavoured crisps, he was your very man. He made carpets speak in warehouse advertisements, he did celebrity impersonations, baked beans, frozen peas.

And just as some people have obvious moral deficits, others must possess moral talent, moral expertise, and even moral genius. As with any human ability, these gradations must be expressed at the level of the brain. Game

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side.

The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.