Quotes About Talent

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

Talent is liquified trouble.

There are runners and there are runners… and then there's Gale Sayers."

The pleasure men take in denigration of the gifted is one of the puzzles of life

Sam Hellerman is a genius!

There are only so many hours in the day for amateur pursuits—and very few writers are as gifted as Wallace Stevens or T. S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath, able to generate something lasting from stolen moments.

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

It was not even necessary for people to know how to sing to be considered rock musicians. Bob Dylan had no clue, but that did not stop him from becoming one of the greatest artists ever.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

One of the aspects of the genius of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was that, although a convinced Democrat, he was quite prepared to use talent wherever he found it.

I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons—because I'm bred to the sea.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

Every time we hire someone, he or she should raise the bar for the next hire, so that the overall talent pool is always improving,

They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership, and high bar for talent. Later Amazon would add a sixth value, innovation.

The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage, since very few organizations are very good at it. —Peter Drucker

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes talent. —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

One of the great tragedies of life is knowing how many people in the world are made to soar, paint, sing, or steer—except they never get the chance to find out.

Prof's ability makes mine look like a piece of rice. And not even a cooked one.

The Superiority has a lot of graphic designers and animators," Morriumur said. "It's one of the most common professions chosen by those who wish to work beyond basic subsistence.

Bastille has a talent for killing conversations. Basically, Bastille has a talent for killing anything.

Allomancy wasn't just about fighting and killing. It was about skill and grace. It was something beautiful.