Talent Is Overrated Quotes

#1. Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN

Daniel H. Pink

#2. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

#3. Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

Claire Weekes

#4. I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.

Edgerrin James

#5. You never have to apologize for the thing you don't say.

Coolidge

#6. And how unfair it would be to torture your heart in never feeling again, because of a feeling you haven't even tried to understand yet.

Nikki Rowe

#7. Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

Phil Crane

#9. I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.

Greta Scacchi

#10. The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Orson Welles

#11. And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

Vincent Van Gogh

#12. There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

Leo Burnett

#13. Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Sydney J. Harris

#14. Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Gish Jen