Quotes for Talent

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Jim Carrey

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

Noel Gallagher

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

Alban Berg

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

Roger Miller

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Marlon Brando

Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

Peter Berg

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

Sun Yat-sen

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

David Bowie

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.

Jay Samit

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Dean Koontz

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.

Albrecht Durer

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

Daniel Boulud

Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

Christine Pelosi

Great talent finds happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Maya Angelou

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

John Wooden