#Talent

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."

"When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born."

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

"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."

"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."

"Art depends on luck and talent."

"Emotion is always multiplied in the art of a person who doesn't really show much emotion. It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away."

"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."

"Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent."

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

"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."

"If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God."

"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents."

"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."

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

"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'"

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

"When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief."