Unlock the power of motivation with our carefully curated selection of 144 inspirational talent quotes. Whether you’re seeking encouragement to develop your skills, recognizing the unique strengths within yourself, or looking to inspire others, these quotes offer timeless wisdom from some of the most influential voices. Dive in and let these words energize your journey toward unlocking your full potential.
1. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
2. “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” - Erica Jong
3. “According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.” - Deepak Chopra
4. “A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in Bioy Casares’s novel The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata (1989). The hero Nicolasito Almanza declares: ‘I am convinced that all of photography depends on the moment we press the release […] I believe that you’re a photographer if you know exactly when to press the release.’ In making this declaration he is responding to the opinion expressed by Mr Gruter, owner of a photographic laboratory: ‘[…] sometimes I wonder if the true work of the photographer doesn’t begin in the dark room, amid the trays and the enlarger.” - Clive Scott
5. “Every artist was first an amateur.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.” - Erma Bombeck
7. “Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?” - Benjamin Franklin
8. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” - Émile Zola
9. “If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.” - Andrew Wyeth
10. “The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
11. “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
12. “Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.” - Pope John Paul II
13. “Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God” - Leo Buscaglia
14. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” - Stephen King
15. “The world loves talent but pays off on character.” - John W. Gardner
16. “Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.” - James A. Owen
17. “Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents.” - Harley King
18. “We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.” - Eric Hoffer
19. “From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.” - Robert Schumann
20. “Talent is unfair and undemocratic; it's also inarguable.” - Tricia Tunstall
21. “Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.” - Sebastyne Young
22. “Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ” - Stephen King
23. “if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.” - Elaine Stritch
24. “I had no ability, but I was determined to show heart.” - Evan Handler
25. “Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.” - Mel Brooks
26. “The most talented people are always the nicest.” - James Caan
27. “YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.” - James Patterson
28. “...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.” - Benjamin Zander
29. “If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.” - Haruki Murakami
30. “A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.” - Daphne du Maurier
31. “Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.” - Zoey Dean
32. “Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.” - Laura Kasischke
33. “Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.” - David Sedaris
34. “Bakat harus dilatih, bukan hanya dilahirkan.” - Dan Millman
35. “Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.” - Candace Bushnell
36. “The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.” - Marge Piercy
37. “I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser.” - Joan Crawford
38. “I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.” - James Hamilton-Paterson
39. “Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.” - Kurt Vonnegut
40. “But Aunt Habiba said not to worry, that everyone had wonderful things hidden inside. The only difference was that some managed to share those wonderful things, and others did not. Those who did not explore and share the precious gifts within went through life feeling miserable, sad, awkward with others, and angry too. You had to develop a talent, Aunt Habiba said, so that you could give something, share and shine. And you developed a talent by working very hard at becoming good at something. It could be anything - singing, dancing, cooking, embroidering, listening, looking, smiling, waiting, accepting, dreaming, rebelling, leaping. 'Anything you can do well can change your life', said Aunt Habiba.” - Fatima Mernissi
41. “At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.[Press conference, University of Virginia, May 20, 1957]” - William Faulkner
42. “It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.” - Ross Wetzsteon
43. “The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.” - Santosh Kalwar
44. “Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.” - Irving Stone
45. “My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably, and masterfully talented. This is different than being intelligent or even educated. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash)” - Marie Mutsuki Mockett
46. “Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.” - Ken Robinson
47. “There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.” - Dame Edna Everage
48. “A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.” - H.E. Davey
49. “It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.” - Louisa May Alcott
50. “…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.” - Louisa May Alcott
51. “Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. "You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that is in the blood, and it is not in yours."The foolish will always treat you badly, because they think you are not beautiful," he said, and she knew this was true. Plain Kate. She was a plain as a stick and thin as a stick and flat as a stick. Her nose was too long and her brows too strong. Her father kissed her twice, once above each brow. "We cannot help what fools think. But understand, it is your skill with a blade that draws this talk. If you want to give up your carving, you have my blessing.""I will never give it up," she answered.” - Erin Bow
52. “Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.” - Brenda Ueland
53. “...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...” - Morgan Matson
54. “But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.” - Elizabeth Hand
55. “Talent is nothing without persistence.” - Dean Crawford
56. “Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes — ah, there's a caseWhere the most careful scrutiny is neededTo tell a voice that's genuinely goodFrom one that's base but merely has succeeded.” - W.H. Auden
57. “Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.” - Marcus Buckingham
58. “Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail.""Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.” - Brandon Mull
59. “Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed.” - David E. Wilkins
60. “Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.” - Gabrielle Hamilton
61. “Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.” - Alexander Pope
62. “...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” - Patrick Suskind
63. “This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here's the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.” - William Henry Davies
64. “Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.” - Stephen King
65. “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.” - John C. Maxwell
66. “Fame is not so impossible for people with charisma, passion and talent. Being famous just means you have fans, and even one or two is enough to make you someone special. Ask a music fan who the best guitarist of all time is, and while one group insists that it was Jimmi Hendrix, another group swears that it was Eddie Van Halen instead. There will never be a time when everyone on this planet agrees on something like that, but luckily that's not important. All that matters is that both sides remain loyal, which they will assuming you continue to be who you are and do your thing. This is all that you need to be immortalized.” - Ashly Lorenzana
67. “Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.” - Alan Rickman
68. “When we dedicate our talent to serving a neighbor, it is possibly one of the highest forms of worship; something sacred transpires when we sacrifice our time and dedicate our God-given loves and talents to one another.” - Matt Litton
69. “Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.” - Criss Jami
70. “Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.” - Criss Jami
71. “...Талант-тоже патология. Отклонение от нормы.” - Генри Лайон Олди
72. “...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it away so arbitrarily! But nature could not care less what we think about it, and as far as talent is concerned, there is such an excess that our artists will soon become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist.” - Hermann Hesse
73. “I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.” - Umberto Eco
74. “I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.” - Rosamunde Pilcher
75. “But sometimes, talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose name and voices you'll never hear. - Paul Hudson” - Tiffanie DeBartolo, How To Kill A Rock Star
76. “...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned.” - E.A. Bucchianeri
77. “Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.” - Amanda Quick
78. “Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.” - Mike Norton
79. “It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.” - Ashly Lorenzana
80. “Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)One time. When I met ya girl my heart when knock (knock knock) Now them butterflies in my stomach won't stop (stop stop) Even love is a struggle and it's all we got. So we gun keep keep climbing to the mountain top. 'Cause your world, is my world, and my breath is your breath, and my heart is yours...” - Justin Bieber
81. “Skills are common. Talent is rare.” - Colin Clark
82. “You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.” - Haruki Murakami
83. “"Joss""What?""What?" Dylan asked back."You just said my name.""No I didn't""Sorry that was me."I sat up, banging my head on the roof. "Who is that?""Hey, stay down here where the air is good, okay?" Dylan pulled me gently back down. "Hows your head?""Not good, I think.""Um, okay, so you here me. Heather's right, you do think loud. I mean, I've never heard you before, but my Talent seems to be a lot more selective than her's. But now that she's got me turned in to you-""Who are you?""It's still me, Marshall. It's Dylan. I'm right here.""My name's Joel.""Joel?""Joss, what are you talking about?" He took my face in his hands. "Who's Joel?""The voice in my head, I guess.""Jesus.” - Susan Bischoff
84. “How could I explain why I'd acted that way? How could I explain how scary it was, to find out that I needed her so much? Was I supposed to tell her how she'd changed everything? Like how U hadn't even realized how bad I felt until she'd made it better, just by looking at me. Like how I thought she was awesome, bad-ass ninja, and what I hated was the fact that I knew I couldn't protect her, when that's all I wanted to do. How could I explain, without sounding like a complete asshole, that I was so afraid of losing her I pushed her away? I couldn't.” - Susan Bischoff
85. “You know, you guys have been dancing around each other for so long you could cut the sexual tension with a knife. It's a wonder you didn't rip each other's clothes off the minute you got over yourselves and got together.""For crissakes, Heather.” - Susan Bischoff
86. “Just think of a safe location.""Are there tennis balls in the soup?""Come on, be serious.""A pear camping highway fire mask," he said, more intensely.My heart rate, which had finally started slowing, sped up again.” - Susan Bischoff
87. “ "Crazy," he muttered softly, "how much I need you."Crazy, how something like that can feel like a kick in the chest, can hurt that much, can suck all the air right out of your body for a moment. And at the same time, settle over you, around you, so soft and warm and sweet, that you think nothing can ever be as good as this one moment.Crazy.That I can love you.This much.” - Susan Bischoff
88. “Bleeding from the ear. Oh Jesus, God. That was on the list for not applying pressure. But what did that mean? I couldn't remember. Couldn't think."Is he okay?""You dropped a two-hundred pound log on his head!" I screamed at Nathan. The air shuddered around us; the building itself seeming to tremble."I didn't mean-""Shut up, man," Marco said, swatting at Nathan's arm. "Joss, you need to calm the fuck down.""Calm down? Calm down?!" Energy pulsed around us, hot, thick, pricking at my eyes. Above, lights flickered, dimmed. A bulb shattered somewhere, and glass came tinkling down.” - Susan Bischoff
89. “I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.” - Susanna Kaysen
90. “To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.” - William Shakespeare
91. “But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.” - Charles Bukowski
92. “I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much.” - Charles Dickens
93. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
94. “You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.” - Stephen King
95. “Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.” - Ogwo David Emenike
96. “If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position hire the best writer. it doesn't matter if the person is marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever, their writing skills will pay off. That's because being a good writer is about more than writing clear writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. great writers know how to communicate. they make things easy to understand. they can put themselves in someone else's shoes. they know what to omit. And those are qualities you want in any candidate. Writing is making a comeback all over our society... Writing is today's currency for good ideas.” - Jason Fried
97. “Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.” - Hiroko Sakai
98. “If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.” - Austin Kleon
99. “I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.” - Natalie Goldberg
100. “If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.” - Honoré de Balzac
101. “Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?” - Abraham Verghese
102. “He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel through difficult terrains that demand a capacity for intelligent emotion, a desire to understand the other, and to approach a language distinct from the one of our daily tyrannies… Writers fail readers, but it also happens the other way around and readers fail writers when all they ask of them is confirmation that the world is how they see it.” - Enrique Vila-Matas
103. “To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something…that you cared about a great deal.” - Richard Russo
104. “What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted."Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks she is a novelist, who am I to quarrel with that? Written with Fowler on his left hand and Roget on his right. Stale, flat and, alas, rapidly becoming unprofitable...""What was he like as a person?" asked Dalgliesh."Oh, difficult. Very difficult, poor fellow! I thought you knew him? A precise, self-opinionated, nervous little man perpetually fretting about his sales, his publicity or his book jackets. He overvalued his own talent and undervalued everyone else's, which didn't exactly make for popularity.""A typical writer, in fact?" suggested Dalgliesh mischievously.” - P.D. James
105. “The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.” - Beth Kephart
106. “How did the hearing go?” she asked.“We won, sort of,” Kaldar said. “We die at dawn.”“The court gave the Sheeriles twenty-four hours,” William corrected.“Yes, but ‘we die at dawn the day after tomorrow’ doesn’t sound nearlyas dramatic.”“Does it have to be dramatic all the time?” Catherine murmured.“Of course. Everyone has a talent. Yours is crocheting and mine ismaking melodramatic statements.” - Ilona Andrews
107. “Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.” - Idries Shah
108. “You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.” - Tom Rath
109. “Don't you ever get in trouble for things like that at the school for the Incredibly gifted?" Jane asked. "No," Merissa said sadly. "Our talent is mischief, so whenever we do something bad they just encourage us to try harder.” - Lizzie K. Foley
110. “I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.” - Alexander Chee
111. “If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.” - Timothy Keller
112. “I write because I love it, not because I excel at it. But because I write, I shall slowly excel at it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
113. “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” - Kevin Durant
114. “The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.” - T. S. Eliot
115. “The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.” - T. S. Eliot
116. “I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.” - Joan Didion
117. “To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.” - Fulton J. Sheen
118. “Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.” - Robert McKee
119. “No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.” - Robert McKee
120. “Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him” - Eliel-Pierre
121. “Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their connotation of ”the starving artist” and the mistaken concept of necessary talent” - Betty Edwards
122. “Desigur, viata [...] e, pentru un scriitor tanar, o prada care nu cedeaza daca nu stii de unde sa apuci.” - Marin Preda
123. “The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.” - Jonah Lehrer
124. “It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent” - Josh Stern
125. “Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
126. “Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.” - Orrin Woodward
127. “It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks.” - Siobhan Vivian
128. “I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.” - Criss Jami
129. “Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.” - Wayde Goodall
130. “We are given talent but we choose to have character.” - Wayde Goodall
131. “Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.” - L L Caulton
132. “I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’‘Of what?’‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.” - Kirsten Kaschock
133. “Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before her eyes and that pathetic voice sounding in her ears, learned to see the beauty and the sweetness of Beth's nature, to feel how deep and tender a place she filled in all hearts, and to acknowledge the worth of Beth's unselfish ambition to live for others, and make home happy by that exercise of those simple virtues which all may possess, and which all should love and value more than talent, wealth, or beauty.” - Louisa May Alcott
134. “i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.” - Darnell Lamont Walker
135. “The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.” - Charlene Costanzo
136. “No matter who we are, where we live, what we look like, the circumstances of our birth or the situations we face; each of us has gifts within us. Strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love and faith are among them. They are not like material presents we unwrap and hold in our hands. We can’t see these gifts with our eyes. But they are real and powerful. When we open ourselves to them, they can enrich every aspect of our lives. They can help us transform challenges into opportunities and tragedies into triumphs. They can help us make a difference in the world.” - Charlene Costanzo
137. “Il te restera toujours tes rèves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué.” - Yasmina Khadra
138. “Hard work is much more important than talent” - Carlo Rotella
139. “If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.” - Jonathan Kellerman
140. “Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like that. But for some reason... The thought that someone other than you might kill me never occurred to me. (Makishima Shogo)” - Urobuchi Gen
141. “Okay, so anagrams. That’s one. Got any other charming talents?” she asked, and now he felt confident.Finally, Colin turned to her, gathering in his gut the slim measure of courage available to him, and said, “Well, I’m a fair kisser.” - John Green
142. “While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.” - Ian McEwan
143. “A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.” - Bryant McGill
144. “Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky” - Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed
