Special Talents Quotes

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God.

You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.

Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.

Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

Our team, because of our depth and our talent, we were able to do that, and it turned into a special season as a result.

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

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

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.

History is the same thing over and over again.

For me, it is the worst kind of sacrilege if you are given some of special talent and you don't take advantage of this gift.

Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.

They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others.

As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.

I think we have some special talents.

That being said, I think it's dangerous to rely on special talents - it's better to own lots of monopolistic businesses with unregulated prices. But that's not the world today. We have made money exercising our talents and will continue to do so.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.

That girl has a special talent

To discover that you can paint without special talent is a great revelation.

An endless stream runs through you, enough to paint for lifetimes. Talent is universal. You can dip into that source to your heart's content. Everyone is good at what comes to them spontaneously. If nothing is put in your way, talent will meet you there.

I grew up on the rough side of the tracks.

If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it.

On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

Leadership potential exists in everybody.

What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

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I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.