98 Quotes Tagged: talent

Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things to do, not politics. Only the third rate, the most unintelligent part of a country, moves into politics.

There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.

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.

Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach.

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.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to think in
Therefore threatening ways?

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.

If you ever find a man who is better than you are – hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.

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.

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.

Base words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood;
But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case
Where the most careful scrutiny is needed
To tell a voice that's genuinely good
From one that's base but merely has succeeded.