Quotes About Talent

You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to take the chance of giving it. (246)

audacity was often the only thing that separated two equally talented men and their job titles.

Honestly," he says, "I judge writers on how they write queries. If you're a good writer, you're a good writer." And if not, then not.

If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.

Almost all were total failures-they couldn't have been put on in the village hall for the author's friends. It wasn't a matter of lack of talent, but of miseducation. The authors of the pseudo-plays assumed that writing should be based on other writing, not on life. My play had been influenced by Beckett, but at least the content had been mine.

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise,there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

Chuck had to come up to Johnnie's mark. He'd been playing with slouches for years, with the cheapest band in town, just going in and out with a briefcase. To a musician, playing below your mark is soul destroying, and he had been doing that for ages, to the point where he was completely cynical about the music.

And I've never really had to get to the point of saying, "I'm now going to write a song." I've never ever done that. When I first knew I could do it, I wondered if I could do another one. Then I found they were rolling off my fingers like pearls. I never had any difficulty in writing songs. It was a sheer pleasure. And a wonderful gift that I didn't know I had. It amazes me.

The other guy on that gig was George Jones. They trailed in with tumbleweed following them, as if tumbleweed was their pet. Dust all over the place, a bunch of cowboys. But when George got up, we went whoa, there's a master up there.

God's gift to me is my potential. My gift back to God is what I do with my potential. JOHN C. MAXWELL DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU

I'm an average photographer with a great God.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools. Too many think they're not good at anything.

Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passion often matters more… If you love doing something, you'll be constantly drawn to get better at it.

The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.

In my experience, most people have a narrow view of intelligence, tending to think of it mainly in terms of academic ability. This is why so many people who are smart in other ways end up thinking that they're not smart at all. There are myths surrounding creativity as well.

They have discovered their Element—the place where the things you love to do and the things that you are good at come together. The

Los procesos educativos actuales no tienen en cuenta los estilos individuales de aprendizaje ni el talento. De ese modo, ofenden el principo de individualidad.

use the term the Element to describe the place where the things we love to do and the things we are good at come together.

there are a variety of ways to express intelligence, and that no one scale could ever measure this.

Los músicos adoran las melodías que componen, los escritores natos aman las palabras, a los bailarines les encanta el movimiento, los matemáticos aman los números, los empresarios adoran cerrar negocios, los grandes profesores aman la enseñanza.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools.

Las habilidades suelen requerir una dosis considerable de educación y aprendizaje para poder desarrollarse. La tendencia natural no supone en absoluto que uno tenga que convertirse en un experto.