Hidden Talents Quotes:

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Music, Life Philosophy, Meaning Life

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Insanity And Genius, Misunderstood Genius

I believe that every person is born with talent.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Strength, Believe, Talent, Belive, Inspirational Student

I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest.

- Tony Robbins

source: FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 14, 2011

topic: Art, Believe, Sleep, Hidden Talents

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Inner Peace, Special Talents, Gifts And Talents

One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.

- Tom Rath

topic: May, Talent, Uncovering, Hidden Talents

I don't have any hidden talents but if you dare me to do something I'll go after it big time.

- Izabel Goulart

topic: Talent, Bigs, Dare, Hidden Talents

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

- Thomas Kinkade

source: "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

topic: Successful, Joy, Balance, Work And Life Balance, Life Balance

The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.

- Henry Ford

topic: Successful Leaders, Hidden Talents

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

- Berry Gordy

topic: People, Talent, Sometimes, Untapped Potential, Motown

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

- Sharon Olds

topic: Writing, Lucky, Self Actualization, Hidden Talents

I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

- Horace Silver

source: Horace Silver (2007). “Let’s Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver”, p.175, Univ of California Press

topic: Grateful, Achievement, Trying, Hidden Talents

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

- Bobby Unser

topic: Motivational, Positive, Men, Professional Career, Professional Work

Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don't think so, unless you have more hidden talents I don't know about. We all have our special sills. They don't make us better or worse than each other. Just different

- Jennifer Estep

topic: Karma, Thinking, Piano, Hidden Talents

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Peace, Interesting, People, Cotton Fields, Science Physics

People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to raise their suspicions on seeing him ever winning laurels in the life's race.

- Anuj

topic: Winning, Race, People, Hidden Talents

There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

- Stanislaw Ulam

topic: Games, Play, Skills, Hidden Talents

I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.

- Xavier Atencio

topic: Writing, Talent, Walt, Hidden Talents

A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Our World, People, Withdrawing, God Given Talents

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Ideas, Suggestions, May, Innovative Ideas, Hidden Talents