Quotes about Talent

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.

When I looked at the white people who were doing this, consciously or not, it made me angry because so many of them were baser, less intelligent, less talented than the people they were lording it over. But the whites were in control. We could do nothing about it. We had no power. That was the way society was. I perceived that this was the way it was meant to be: things were organized to keep those who were on top up there. The country was racist all the way through.

Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

Find something you like to do, and do it so well that people pay you to do it.

God seems less interested in talent and more interested in trust.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

We find that David had the tenderness and the sensitivity of an artist. He was a musician and a songwriter. David did not simply have talent. Talent alone could not have soothed the torment of Saul. David plucked the strings of his harp with tenderness and sensitivity. He chose melodies that ministered to the aching soul.