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Quotes About Talent

Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.
~ Jim Stynes
Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
~ Arnold Palmer
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
~ Elizabeth George
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
~ John Stuart Mill
Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
~ Gerald Brooks
The most talented people are always the nicest.
~ James Caan
cuando se trata de talento: cuanto más ayude usted a las personas a ser mejores, más se ayudan ellas entre sí a ser mejores.
~ Sydney Finkelstein
star performers will leave no matter what. The best people are constantly looking for more opportunity, more challenge, more accomplishment. The only question is whether you will leverage your best talent to create career-long connections that provide ongoing payback via new opportunities for business transactions, talent acquisition, and investment deals.
~ Sydney Finkelstein
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity
~ Sydney J. Harris
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
~ Sydney Smith
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
~ Sydney Smith
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
~ Sydney Smith
Partial Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage". Full Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort".
~ Sydney Smith
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage
~ Sydney Smith
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
~ Sydney Smith
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
~ Sylvia Kristel
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
~ Sylvia Plath
I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.
~ T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
Just because people love your gift doesn't mean they love you. Most of them will never really know you. Most of them don't care about you. They just want your gift. And it's okay to share your gift. It's a good thing to serve your gift to people or in places that may benefit from it.
~ T.D. Jakes
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
~ T.D. Jakes
Strength in the wrong place is weakness. That's true of anyone's gift. If you're not using your greatest asset in the right way, it's a weakness. Your greatest strength might be your undoing
~ T.D. Jakes