Quotes About Talent

There was some skill involved in being a girl.

Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured, Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.

Las personas sensatas no se enorgullecen de sus talentos.

Orang yang berakal sehat tak pernah berbangga dengan bakatnya. Miss Maudie

If your father's anything, he's civilized in his heart. Marksmanship's a gift of God, a talent--oh, you have to practice to make it perfect, but shootin's different from playing the piano or the like. I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn't shoot till he had to, and he had to today.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

That's wrong, she declared. Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

People have to pay a price for the gifts they are given

I love music, but I can't sing a note.

Some people write string quartets, some grow lettuce and tomatoes. There have to be a few who build railroad stations

I don't think it's a question of liking or disliking it, Tengo said...It was the one thing he was best at. Hmm. I see, Kumi said. She pondered this. But that might very well be the best way to live your life.

I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.' 'That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

Talent is like a container. You can work as hard as you want, but the size will never change. It'll only hold so much water and no more.

The music world is where child prodigies go to die.

After you pass a certain age, things you were able to do easily aren't so easy anymore — just as a fastball pitcher's speed starts to slip away with time. Of course, it's possible for people as they mature to make up for a decline in natural talent. Like when a fastball pitcher transforms himself into a cleverer pitcher who relies on changeups. But there is a limit. And there definitely is a sense of loss.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

Abundant talent is like a rich vein of water underground that finds all sorts of places to gush forth(..)

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.

I was beginning to understand what Hiraku Makimura meant about Ame's wearing him down. Ame didn't give anything. She only took. She consumed those around her to sustain herself. And those around her always gave. Her talent was manifested in a powerful gravitational pull. She believed it was her privilege, her right. Harmony and peace. In order for her to have that, she had everyone waiting on her hand and foot.

El talento es como un recipiente. La capacidad del recipiente no cambia por mucho que uno se esfuerce. Y cuando el agua llega al borde, rebosa.

Corporations that do a better-than-average job of developing leaders put an emphasis on creating challenging opportunities for relatively young employees.

When you're attempting to discover what you do best and what you enjoy most, it's important to realize that these two things aren't necessarily mutually inclusive. You may get lots of positive feedback about something you're very good at but not truly enjoy it. Conversely, you can love doing something but have no gift for it, so that achieving success requires much more energy than it makes sense to invest.