1,160 Quotes About Talent

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself

If you submit to your gift, people will seek and invite you, you will get well paid because you have perfected your gift

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.

Anyone can easily build a career on a single eccentric talent, if it is cunningly deployed. As I always advise young people, ‘Find one or two things your boss is rubbish at and be quite good at them.’ Complementary talent is far more valuable than conformist talent.