“Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.” PayAttentionTalentCaughtDuesPay AttentionCaught Up Author:Robert Griffin III
“Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.” HumansWellsUseWisdomPleasureNumbersTalentExerciseIllDuesSweetnessAlleviateHuman Wisdom Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.” ShouldLittlesBookRunningSongCoursesDifficultCommonRecordsTalentReturnLuckInvestmentInvestingVery GoodDetermineDuesCoreCommon SenseManagersInvestorsCompetenceFeesSirensAdvisorsSalesmanshipSiren Song Author:Warren Buffett
“Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.” HardFactsTalentUniqueLuckDuesCopiesMixtures Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou
“People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.” PeopleWantHas BeensDoneMomentsCertainHoursTalentAmountPaidLuckFortuneDuesGood FortuneYour MomOvernight Success Author:Damon Lindelof
“Once upon a time there was a girl who discovered that if she played a certain tune on a jade flute, she could summon up jade gnomes, a peculiar, harmless, but rather creepy looking spirit of the underground. The fact is that many of us have talents like this, but generally never discover them due to lack of opportunity, since one can go one's entire life without playing a jade flute, or discovering that one can speak the language of ground sloths, or turning fruitcake into solid tungsten by singing Sinatra tunes to it under a quarter moon.” IfsFactsSpiritCertainGirlOpportunitySpeakLanguageTalentMoonSingingDuesTunesPeculiarQuartersDiscoveringCreepyOnce Upon A TimeSlothFlutesGnomeJadeFruitcake Author:Ursula Vernon
“I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.” ThinkingShouldTalentDues Author:Kelly Rowland