Talents Quotes

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

One of my greatest talents is recognizing talent in others and giving them the forum to shine.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.