Quotes about Talent

Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

The reason why God has given us a thinking faculty, is that we may think on his Name. When our thoughts run out in vain things, we should think with ourselves thus: Did God give us this talent to misemploy? Did he give us thoughts that we should think of everything but him?

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of us and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.

When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of use and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Music is a gift. We make it to give it away.

Play simple, and people will join in. Sing along. Which, by the way, is the goal. Our job is to put a song in their mouths and let them sing it back to us. That's all that really matters." Then he added, "The great players aren't great because of all the notes they can play, but because of the ones they don't play.