Talent Quotes - Page 37

• He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

  David Pleat

  Football, Careers, Lovely

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• As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

  T. S. Eliot

  Stars, Laughter, Squad

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Powerful, Blessed, Creativity

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• 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

  Names, Doe, Familiar

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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• When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Couple, Team

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• She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Natural Talent, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Feb 14, 2015

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• People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

  Terence Conran

  Teaching, Learning, People

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• Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

  Paulo Coelho

  Use, Being The Best, Universal

  "The Winner Stands Alone". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2008.

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• Talent comes with an individual name tag.

  Charles Handy

  Teaching, Learning, Names

  Charles B. Handy (2003). “The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist”, p.62, Harvard Business Press

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• My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ambition, Expectations, Achievement

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.165, Vintage

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• ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

  Markus Zusak

  Swear, Ferocity

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.59, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

  Russell Brand

  Self, Loathing, Manage

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

  Gregory Maguire

  Skills, Waiting, Lines

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• I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Clever, Smart, Character

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• Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Roots, Blue, Paper

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• Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

  Slash

  Views, Voice, Perspective

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

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• Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, War, Ambition

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• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

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• Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

  David Foster Wallace

  Expectations, Forever, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “Infinite Jest”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Taken, Appreciate, Given

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• My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.

  Rajneesh

  Missing, Feelings, Goes On

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• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Home, Men

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• We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, May, Fifteen

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• We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!

  Lynn Johnston

  Children, Unique, Use

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.5, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.

  John Jay Chapman

  Heartbroken, Home, Ambition

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