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Quotes About Talents

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.
~ Kevin Kelly
I'd be very good at being rich, but no one has offered to test my talents in that department. ... New York was like a wealthy, handsome, intensely artistic, complex, slightly manic man who, for some inexplicable reason, was enthralled with me. Not that I ever met a man like that. Who needed men anyway? I'll take Manhattan.
~ Kim Addonizio
Like joy's brooch you brought back to us, they always fine their way home. These brooches are curious things. More curious than you know. New riders Will be called to the service, and they Will wear these same brooches. With the brooches they Will discover new talents and use them. Ween they retire from the service, or die, the brooch Will call out to someone new. It has always been this way.
~ Kristen Britain
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." —Patanjali, an Indian teacher often called the Father of Yoga.
~ Carmine Gallo
This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. Although people may differ in every which way—in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments—everyone can change and grow through application and experience.
~ Carol S. Dweck
There are so many ways the fixed mindset creates groupthink. Leaders are seen as gods who never err. A group invests itself with special talents and powers. Leaders, to bolster their ego, suppress dissent. Or workers, seeking validation from leaders, fall into line behind them.
~ Carol S. Dweck
This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your strategies, and help from others. Although people may differ in every which way—in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments—everyone can change and grow through application and experience.
~ Carol S. Dweck
growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your strategies, and help from others. Although people may differ in every which way—in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments—everyone can change and grow through application and experience.
~ Carol S. Dweck
This growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts, your strategies, and help from others. Although people may differ in every which way—in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments
~ Carol S. Dweck
Prodigios o no, todos tenemos intereses que pueden florecer como habilidades.
~ Carol S. Dweck
I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.
~ George Michael
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
~ Viscount Samuel
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
~ Cotton Mather
Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.
~ Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.
~ George H. Bender
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
~ Jonathan Swift
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
~ William Hazlitt
Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.
~ Charles A. Hawley
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~ Sophia Loren
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
~ Carl Jung
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
~ Dr. Edward De Bono
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. —Mark Twain
~ J.D. Robb