Talent Distribution Quotes

Superior ability is not the exclusive possession of any one race or any one class.

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

Not everybody can do everything at a high level.

Was there or will there ever be a nation whose individuals were all equal, in natural and acquired qualities, in virtues, talents, and riches? The answer in all mankind must be in the negative.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

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.

People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West.

All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.

You can't say it's good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on 80 percent of the teams, but why would a team sign a player when you can pay dirt, and they're not going to win anyway?

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good economic prospects. Our country would really benefit if those who went to elite universities, who started businesses, who started nonprofits, weren't just doing so on the coasts.

I think God gave talent to different people in different areas.

I feel like everybody's on the same level. Nobody's done anything more important than any other. People have gifts in other areas. You weren't blessed with them; they were blessed with them.

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.

Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.