Quotes About Talent

People rarely achieved greatness because they were too blinded by daily routine even to try anything extraordinary. For Cutler mediocrity was a failure of will, not talent.

My own experience and a lot of research tell me that you already have what it takes to be a highly competent negotiator.

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second-rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it is unlikely that he could do better).

Real art is knowledge not talent.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

You're incredibly gifted, Sam. But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

The words of Anders Larsson came back to him: "To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

Hi ha una època per a qualsevol aspirant a artista en la qual el seu gust excedeix les seves habilitats.

He had begun to suspect that while he had an obvious aptitude for math, he was not particularly inspired by it.

To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

To disdain the moral pronouncements of hypocrites; to be true to my word; to always do what I promise, no more and no less. To hone my talent and wield it like a beacon in a darkening world.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

After this happens, Denny will be free to live his life, and I will return to earth in a new form, as a man, and I will find him and shake his hand and comment on how talented he is, and then I will wink at him and say, "Enzo says hello," and turn and walk quickly away as he calls after me, "Do I know you?" He will call, "Have we met before?

What's the point of talent if you can't share it?

Near the end of his tenure as co-CEO of SAP, Jim Hagemann Snabe discovered that the German software giant had amassed more than fifty thousand key performance indicators (KPIs), covering every job across the company. Snabe was horrified. "We were trying to run the company by remote control," he recalls. "We had all this amazing talent, but had asked them to put their brains on ice.

We each have passions and skills, but you'll see extraordinarily successful people with one intense emotion or one learned ability that shines through, defining them or driving them more than anything else.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. —MAGIC JOHNSON