Quotes about Talent

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Potential is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to God.

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Genius is born-not paid

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

Accordingly, since a good nature and the Holy Spirit were joined, he had to become a distinguished poet, and there is no doubt at all that throughout his governorship he produced many other poems and contrived many other artifices of this kind that are not recorded in this book. But from this one example one can judge what kind of prophet he was, a man of the highest talent and spirit. In addition to these gifts, he had practice and experience in many troubles and vexations.

The best gift of Christmas is a child, of course. But the next best is giving time and talent to help one another.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.