Quotes About Skills And Talent

#1. Never forget - someone else didn't get the job that day because you were the best candidate with the most unique combination of skills and talent.

Carla Harris

#2. In the interest of clarity, we'll define talent in its strictest sense: the possession of repeatable skills that don't depend on physical size (sorry, jockeys and NFL linemen).

Daniel Coyle

#3. You are unique with special skills for a specific mission on earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

Oscar De La Renta

#5. We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

Jack Kemp

#6. The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Heffernan

#7. When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

Lynn A. Robinson

#8. A profession that completely matches your talent, aspirations and skills is the best profession you can choose.

Eraldo Banovac

#9. Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Teresa Amabile

#11. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Will Smith

#12. The most successful people start with dominant talent - and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.

Tom Rath

#13. I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art, and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. And with my talent level and my skill level, I'll get there.

Freddie Gibbs

#14. It's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

Andrew James Pritchard

#15. Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

Stephen Covey

#16. Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) x Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)

Tom Rath

#17. You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

Benjamin Percy

#18. Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

James E. Loehr

#19. No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Rob Liano

#20. Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

Robert Stacy McCain

#21. I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

Anthony Hopkins

#22. Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#23. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.

Ryan Holmes

#24. Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

Daniel Coyle

#25. Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

Usain Bolt

#26. Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

Immanuel Kant

#27. When it comes to competing with the best and brightest in whatever your talents or educational skills are, you have to have the confidence within yourself that you are able to achieve.

Ellen J. Barrier

#28. Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.

Randall Dale Adams

#29. Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.

Archibald Marwizi

#30. I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

Michael Jackson

#31. With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.

Seth Troxler

#32. Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Jeffrey Carver

#33. We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. If you wish to give chance on others' abilities and capabilities then give them respected time to grow and express themselves.
Share a path for everyone to grow and glow!

Angelica Hopes

#35. The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

Donnell Rawlings

#36. My skills are unique. Forged over a lifetime of dedication and hard work. It is not talent. It is not luck. It is nothing less than perseverance that makes me the best at what I do. For

A. Zavarelli

#37. A combination of unrealistic goals, unnecessarily pessimistic expectations, and the wrong incentives for teachers contributes to ensure that education systems in developing countries fail their two main tasks: giving everyone a sound basic set of skills, and identifying talent.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

#38. If a man chooses a certain Way and seems to have no particular talent for this Way, he can still become a master if he so chooses. By keeping at a particular form of study a man can attain perfection either in this life or the next (if a next life is believed in).

Miyamoto Musashi

#39. Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

Tiger Woods

#40. Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

Joel S. Goldsmith