Top 80 Great Talents Quotes
#1. CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out.
Leslie Moonves
#2. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.
Richard M. Nixon
#3. Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
Ovid
#4. I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan
#6. I delight in M'Cheyne's remark, It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#7. Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
M.A.Kelty
#8. Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.
Miguel De Cervantes
#9. I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...
Elizabeth Montagu
#10. As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.
William Monahan
#11. To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients who where unquestionably endowed with great talents, and whose genius distinctly appeared through their madness, which, however, had completely gained the upper hand.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#13. We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Luc De Clapiers
#14. It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God ...
Edward McKendree Bounds
#17. The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortune of the State until he has discovered his incompetence to conduct his own affairs.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#18. I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
David Cassidy
#19. If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Joshua Reynolds
#20. Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
Laozi
#21. A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
Joseph Addison
#22. A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.
Carl Flesch
#23. The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.
Charles Spurgeon
#24. Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.
Samuel Foote
#25. Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
#27. Great talents mature slowly.
Lao-Tzu
#28. Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups.
David Levering Lewis
#29. What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
Steve Martin
#30. A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
Vera Nazarian
#31. All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God ... for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.
Amari Cooper
#32. The most important thing to leverage is people. Their talents and connections will take you to great heights.
Ehab Atalla
#33. Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...
Eric Berlin
#34. Don't wear yourself out trying to compete with others. You were uniquely designed by God to do great things with the talents He blessed you with. Celebrate who you are and keep working hard to become a better you!
Theresa Lewis
#35. The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Luc De Clapiers
#36. Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.
Seth
#37. To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.
Galileo Galilei
#38. But as a war time president James Madison did not display dynamic leadership. Andrew Jackson acknowledged Madison " a great civilian," but declared " the mind of a philosopher could not dwell on blood and carnage with any composure," and judged his talents " not fitted for a stormy sea.
Andrew Jackson
#39. 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.
Perry Como
#41. There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
Ahmet Ertegun
#42. You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Sir Edward's great object in life was to be seductive. With such personal advantages as he knew himself to possess, and such talents as he did also give himself credit for, he regarded it as his duty. He felt that he was formed to be a dangerous man - quite in line of the Lovelaces.
Jane Austen
#44. A great mentor always uses his/her own way to dig deep and squeezes out all the hidden talents and gifts.
Euginia Herlihy
#45. I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#47. Oh, well,' Mrs. Zender continued, 'Mother always said that Mr. Zender had other talents. He was good looking, and I think Mother put looking good right up there with the harpsichord, an instrument that has limited performance time and requires a great deal of maintenance.
E.L. Konigsburg
#48. Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
Therese Of Lisieux
#49. My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
Edward Brooke
#50. The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#51. The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they've developed together as a group.
Terry Riley
#53. I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.
Frank Whaley
#54. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
Warren G. Bennis
#55. Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.
Amanda Borden
#56. Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#57. Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.
Barbara Mikulski
#58. High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat.
Terry Pratchett
#59. Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that god has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!
Pope Francis
#60. There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.
Olivia Stuck
#62. Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an edge to your resume. If you blog consistently it shows your dedication, passions and creativity - all of which are key attributes employers look for in job candidates.
Lauren Conrad
#63. Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#64. As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.
Edmund Burke
#65. Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Friedrich Schiller
#66. Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.
Brian Houston
#67. It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#68. I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.
James Van Der Beek
#69. The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in ... The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.
John Lennon
#70. Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#71. Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.
Jane Powell
#73. The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
Felicity Jones
#74. Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents.
Ken Robinson
#75. Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage. I replied that, yes, I was a senior enough notary to be entrusted with my present assignment, but a junior enough scrivener to be obligated to accept the same.
David Mitchell
#76. To realize the body's potential for flow is relatively easy. It does not require special talents or great expenditures of money. Everyone can greatly improve the quality of life by exploring one or more previously ignored dimensions of physical abilities. Of
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#77. In this value driven and 'connection economy', skills & talents alone are dime-a-dozen, you need to be able to add value to others and build great connections
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#78. Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. Sometimes our greatest gifts and talents are birthed through great pain and suffering
Timothy Pina
