Best 1678 quotes in «talent quotes» category

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .

on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.

Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Our gifts and talents should also be turned over to Him. They should be recognized for what they are, God's loan to us, and should never be considered in any sense our own

Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.

patience is an integral part of talent.

Paul Scholes is the best player I've ever played with. There's talent in every part of his game.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear.

Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time and talents and energies into the things of God. As surely as the compass needle follows north, your heart will follow your treasure. Money leads; hearts follow.

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Recognize that you are a spiritual being who is part of a large cosmic family of spiritual beings. You have the power, strength, and talent to fulfill your own individual earthly destiny.

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.