Talent Quotes · Page 80

Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.

— Steve Denning

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

— Iyanla Vanzant

Being good at something is not someone's fault. It's merely a gift. Gifts should be cherished, not envied and put down.

— Anonymous

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

— Keren Woodward

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

— Brock Pierce

“No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.”

— Airicka Phoenix

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

— Daryl Hall

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

— Ken Danby

I'm a big believer that God gave me the ability to have talent, but I have worked hard on my craft. Am…

— Francisco Lindor

I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald…

— Douglas Wilson

It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra…

— Robert Griffin III

We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch…

— Uri Geller

We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within…

— Michael Beckwith

Sports psychology suggests - and we as players have been taught - that negative self-talk can diminish our chances for success and…

— Gabe Kapler

“Don't worry. You've got no talent to begin with. How hard you tried isn't important either. But each little thing you learn…

— Hisae Iwaoka

I've practically grown up with FC Bayern Munich since the age of 11. In my case, a talent scout noticed me when…

— Philipp Lahm

I don't look at myself as a hero, I look at myself as somebody who has taken life with a lot of…

— John Assaraf

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had…

— John G. Kemeny

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the…

— Mark Twain

To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet,…

— Anne Ellis

I could have been in a house show the day before being flown in to do the Survivor Series. I'd do that…

— The Ultimate Warrior

Beyonce is a beautiful, elegant woman who is also a wonderful dancer. And her voice is sublime. Just like her husband, Jay-Z,…

— Azzedine Alaia

You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at…

— Sinead O'Connor

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

— David Foster Wallace

An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.

— Payal Rohatgi

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

London's top colleges attract the best young talent from around the world; they're truly a national asset.

— Munira Mirza

I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

— David Letterman

I tried to just rely on my talent years ago and ended up losing a couple of fights because of that.

— Paddy Pimblett

Miyazaki has a great talent, but I really struggle every time I create a new film and am far from Miyazaki.

— Makoto Shinkai

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

— Susanna Kaysen

My talent is universal, and acting is a craft that can be used anywhere, unless ethnicity comes into play, and then, looks…

— Parvathy

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

— Anonymous

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

— Robert Collier

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

— Martin Ritt

Messi is a natural born talent, that is not to say he doesn’t work hard, but you can’t teach what he can…

— Deco

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

— Warren Beatty

Remember, when you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at it they'll tell you.

— Mario Tomasello

“Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...”

— Joseph Banks