Quotes about Talent
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
— Nikki Giovanni
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
— Lou Holtz
It takes a talent to doubt, it requires no talent at all to despair (pp515)
— Soren Kierkegaard
I believe that every person is born with talent.
— Maya Angelou
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
— Peter Drucker
No matter what you've been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!
— Joel Osteen
The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people.
— Craig Groeschel
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
— Nicky Gumbel
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
— Denzel Washington
We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.
— Alice Walker