“just a reminder: your light is not dependent on others awareness of it.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Most of my career was negative. I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career. I got involved in going out. I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.”— Pete Maravich, books.google.com
“I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.”— Jackie Gleason, books.google.com
“If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.”— Jackie Gleason, biography.com
“Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal; and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing.”— Ella Fitzgerald, ellafitzgerald.com
“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for ins…”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”— Lorraine Hansberry, amazon.com
“Mastery has a language to it. Speak that language and you will learn how to master anything you have some degree of talent in.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.”— banksy, twitter.com