#Talent

"...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative."

"Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre."

"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves."

"Be willing for purpose; it pays huge returns on investment. And along the journey, those who dis your willing sacrifice(s) will ponder their own foolishness."

"Talent is a gift, but character is a choice."

"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."

"Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years."

"Hope is a talent like any other."

"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]"

"One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation."

"I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much."

"Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter."

"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

"My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success."

"I think there are those individuals who are intimidated by really smart, talented people. But for me, surrounding yourself with great talent is the key to success."

"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."

"Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads."

"I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society."

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."