Quotes About Talent

The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away

Though we possess the brainpower, the talent, and the tools to solve our most worrying problems, it's enormously difficult to organize ourselves around the big questions.

You may argue that others have been born with the special talent you lack but desire to have. This is true. But they had to cultivate the habit of that ability some time - if not in this life, then in a previous one. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.

Because I've gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

As I applauded, I knew that it would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.

An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a genuine achievement.

Genius accepts genius unconditionally. -Anonymous

It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often ostracized.

Michelangelo

If the world's finest fighting force assigns only its best people to a three-year challenge in recruiting, and then rewards them afterwards with promotion, why shouldn't corporate America make HR a similar rite of passage for its most promising managers?

The headhunter, generally paid by commission only, must place his applicant somewhere, and soon. He is motivated by a successful placement, rather than by a successful matching of individual talent to companies.

Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

Except for the financially desperate, people do not work for money alone. What also fuels their passion for work is a larger sense of purpose or passion. Given the opportunity, people gravitate to what gives them meaning, to what engages to the fullest their commitment, talent, energy, and skill.

practical intelligence is rarely the main factor in a star's outstanding job performance.

Yvonne Sell, the Hay Group's director of the leadership and talent practice in the United Kingdom, who did the study, found such leaders are rare: only 18 percent of executives attained this level. Three-quarters of leaders with three or fewer strengths in people skills created negative climates, where people felt indifferent or demotivated. Lame leadership seems all too prevalent—more than half of leaders fell within this low-impact category.

Es la combinación entre el talento razonable y la capacidad de perseverar ante el fracaso lo que conduce al éxito.

Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics—what they believe matters.18

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can hit. He can run. He has everything. All he needs in experience.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.