Quotes About Talent

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes," [T.S. Eliot] wrote, "who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

Genius is patience,

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

Fabulous lover, excellent decorator - rotten writer? Nobody can be good at everything, and two out of three ain't bad.

The lesser the talent, the longer they spent on the red carpet.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

True greatness is often unrecognized.

her first husband was a 'genius with a misdirected mind'.

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you're talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

You have to have a talent for having talent.

The depth of desire has a great deal to do with the outcome of our life. Often, those who accomplish what they set out to do in life are not those who are the most talented or gifted or who have had the best opportunities. Often they are the ones who are most deeply in touch with how badly they want whatever they want; they are the ones who consistently refuse to be deterred by the things that many of us allow to become excuses.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

Just because somebody is ahead of you doesn't mean they're better than you. Just because somebody's more developed than you doesn't mean they're more talented than you. Just because somebody beat you doesn't mean they won and just because somebody didn't win doesn't mean they lost.

Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum at a hundred paces?" With a snort, Alec jerked his gaze away. "More like a cantaloupe. The thing shrinks with every retelling. Soon they'll have me shooting at a mustard seed.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

King James was brilliant. He was the greatest king who ever sat on the British throne. Who else among royalty, in his time, would have had the giant talent to write Shakespeare's works? It was he who poetically fixed the Bible - which in itself and in its present King James version enslaved the world.

You've got strengths you're not even aware of yet and you are going to be amazed at what you can do when this is all over. I believe in you; not just in your talent, but in you yourself. There is so much more to you than you even realize, I promise.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

Dios hace a veces esos chistes: darnos una vocación para la que no tenemos talento.

The power of skills and knowledge is that they are transferable from one person to another. Their limitation is that they are often situation-specific — faced with an unanticipated scenario, they lose much of their power. In contrast, the power of talent is that it is transferable from situation to situation.

This is the same feeling that many managers unwittingly create in their employees. Even when working with their most productive employees, they still spend most of their time talking about each person's few areas of nontalent and how to eradicate them. No matter how well-intended, relationships preoccupied with weakness never end well.

A close scrutiny of excellence, however, reveals that our edge—our particular genius—is precise. We each have specific areas where we consistently stand out, where we can do things, see things, understand things, and learn things better and faster than ten thousand other people can.

employees need great managers. The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.