Quotes About Talent Or Skill

#1. Talent or skill wasn't how you recognized a genius. A genius was the person giving the world the eff-you salute while doing the impossible.

Rae Mariz

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

Randall Dale Adams

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

Joel S. Goldsmith

#4. The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Criss Jami

#5. It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

Terry Pratchett

#6. 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

#7. Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Sam Mendes

#8. It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

Julie James

#9. A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carol Mann

#10. If I refuse to step out in a gift or skill that God has given me because I'm afraid or lazy, I may be behaving the same way as the steward with one talent.

Bob Lotich

#11. Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven't yet developed.

David Shenk

#12. 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.

Criss Jami

#13. And it had left me with a certain skill for managing enraged werewolves, which was a good thing, my foster father had told me often enough, since I sure had a talent for enraging them.

Patricia Briggs

#14. Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. 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

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

Robert Stacy McCain

#18. The world won't be loyal and burden itself to those who are having one skill and talent any longer. Make yourself useful and indispensable...

Assegid Habtewold

#19. You shouldn't be proud of being good at something, if you were born with it. That would be as dumb as being proud of having two legs, or speaking a language, or pooping.

Orson Scott Card

#20. Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. 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

#22. Good things happen to a team when a player takes the place where he adds the most value. Great things happen when all the players on the team take the role that maximizes their strengths - their talent, skill, and experience.

John C. Maxwell

#23. Skill reaches the ceiling,
talent reaches the mountaintop,
excellence reaches the sky,
but genius reaches the stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Edward De Bono

#25. Skill is in your mind.
Talent is in your heart.
Genius is in your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

Victor Davis Hanson

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

Orhan Pamuk

#28. Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Criss Jami

#29. In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.

Matsuo Basho

#30. By middle school, students have an image of themselves as readers or nonreaders. Students who do not read see reading as a talent that they do not have rather than as an attainable skill.

Donalyn Miller

#31. 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

#32. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#33. The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the twenty-first century coming out at twelve, or even younger, would never develop that valuable skill.

Bob Smith

#34. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Maxwell Perkins

#35. Acting is a skill that not only requires talent, but a determination: The willpower to shake off reality and plunge yourself into yourself into a character than you have to act on.

Low Kay Hwa

#36. Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Paul Rand

#37. No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

Derek R. Audette

#38. God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11, to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that.

Russell Wilson

#39. What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don't you agree?

Neil Gaiman

#40. It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#41. He is - and this is a fundamental entrepreneurial talent - a master illusionist. It's the essential entrepreneurial skill, to convince people you are what you have yet to become.

Michael Wolff

#42. Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

Charles Stross

#43. When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, 'Oh, she's going to be a movie star.' No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

Rebel Wilson

#44. I think Chris Roberts is one of them, Will Wright's another, Peter Molyneux is another. They clearly exist, but on the whole, I think that the design talent in our industry is dramatically lower than we need, as an industry. It's a very hard skill to learn.

Richard Garriott

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

Fulton J. Sheen

#48. My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

Ivanka Trump

#49. There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#50. I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Criss Jami

#51. Kim reacted to the accusation with the skill and talent of a professional politician who flunked out of high school and got into office on a technicality.

J. Judkins

#52. Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill.

Ovid

#53. Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Steven Spielberg

#54. When the right people advocate for your work, your success becomes more likely. Being good is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Skill is a prerequisite for creative success, but talent is only part of the equation. The rest is network.

Jeff Goins

#55. Creativity is not a talent; It is a skill. A talent is something you are born with. A skill is something you learn.

Josh Linkner

#56. Many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

Judy Delton

#57. Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

Eliel Pierre

#58. 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

#59. No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.

Enock Maregesi

#60. How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.

Matshona Dhliwayo