Individual Talent Quotes:

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Historical, Environmental, Individual Talent

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

- William Barclay

source: William Barclay (2014). “Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B”, p.88, Saint Andrew Press

topic: Life Is Like, Use, Individual Talent

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.478, Faber & Faber

topic: Past, Historical, Perception, Individual Talent

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Art, Mean, Expression, What Is Poetry, Individual Talent

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Art, Artist, Poet, Individual Talent, Dead Poets

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Writing, Poetry, Feelings, Individual Talent, Particles

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Art, Sacrifice, Self, Individual Talent, Self Sacrifice

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Success, Encouragement, Individual Success, Individual Talent

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.953, Faber & Faber

topic: Feelings, Ordinary, Use, Individual Talent

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Inspirational Football, Individual Performance

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Basketball, Want, Labor, Individual Talent

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

topic: Country, Writing, Men, Individual Talent

I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way.

- Jeff Orlowski

topic: Believe, Differences, Making A Difference, Individual Talent

The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.

- Ha-Joon Chang

topic: Taken, People, Effort, Individual Talent, Collective Action

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Girl, Sex, Women, Individual Talent

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

- Viacheslav Platonov

topic: Volleyball, Originality, Talent, Individual Talent

Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.

- John Wooden

topic: Team, Effort, Understanding, Individual Talent

CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.

- Zach Anner

topic: Struggle, Unique, Doors, Individual Talent, Positive Things

Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

topic: Opportunity, Government, Law, Individual Talent, Equal Protection

Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.

- Stuart Chase

source: Stuart Chase (1948). “The Proper Study of Mankind ...: An Inquiry Into the Science of Human Relations”, New York : Harper

topic: Average, Organization, Important, Individual Talent, Sporadic

A special workplace has many ingredients. The feeling that you are part of a team, a sense of community, the knowledge that what you do has real purpose - all these things help to make work fun. But by far the most important factor is whether people are able to use their individual talents and skills to do something useful, significant, and worthwhile.

- Dennis Bakke

source: Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.75, PVG

topic: Fun, Team, Real, Individual Talent

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.

- Ken Robinson

source: Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.154, Penguin

topic: Children, Passion, Keys, Individual Talent, Challenges We Face

Many people think of me as just a riff guitarist, but I think of myself in broader terms. As a musician I think my greatest achievement has been to create unexpected melodies and harmonies within a rock and roll framework. And as a producer I would like to be remembered as someone who was able to sustain a band of unquestionable individual talent, and push it to the forefront during its working career. I think I really captured the best of our output, growth, change and maturity on tape - the multifaceted gem that is Led Zeppelin.

- Jimmy Page

topic: Maturity, Thinking, Rocks, Individual Talent, Melody And Harmony

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.

- Kobe Bryant

topic: Basketball, Sports, Baseball, Individual Talent, Tempo