Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.
Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.
I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role.
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.
Money can run out but talent is forever
To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied - through marketing as much as talent - by Steve Jobs.
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.
F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.
Your heart becomes gangrenous in your body when you go against your talent.
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
One day, when I was about eight years old, some kids pushed me on stage at school during a talent show because they knew I could sing.
I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.
