Talent Quotes - Page 5

• In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Running, Attitude, Long

  "The Influence of a School District's Early Childhood Education Policy on Urban Students' Academic Achievement Towards Advanced Class Placement". Book by Alice P. Bartley, p. 21, 2008.

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• According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Expression

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• The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.

  Alvin Toffler

  Running, People, Imagination

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• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Mean, Men

  "Ideas And Opinions". Book by Albert Einstein, 1954.

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• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  Veronica Lake

  Eye, Suffering, Vision

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Attitude, Pride

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• Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Pay, Wealth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.311

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• Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Lying, Men, Shining

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.58

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• It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

  Josh Lieb

  Pay, Be Good, Absolutes

  Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.162, Penguin

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Curiosity, Inquisitive, Particular

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• Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.

  Sidney Jourard

  Commitment, Self, Justice

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• Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

  Dan Marino

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

  Abraham Maslow

  Work, Inspiration, Calling

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• I am no more humble than my talents require.

  Oscar Levant

  Humble, Be Humble

  "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past". Book edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2003.

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• A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Men, Order

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

  Jean Anouilh

  Writing

  Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

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• I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Cursed

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• Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Women, Eye, Law

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• Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

  Stephen King

  Success, Cutting, Knives

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Strong, Animal

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama. Chapter 5, 2006.

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• One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

  William Matthews

  Law, Energy, Attention

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• If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Husband, Nice, Caring

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• I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Singers, Crystals, Trios

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• Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Mean, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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