untapped talent Quotes

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

There's definitely a lot of undiscovered talent in Africa. If I'm one of them and there's a few other guys in the league, that means that there must be some that are hidden.

There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.

People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to awakening your genius. That special talent you never followed through on might be an important source of delight, the one you should commit to. That old dream might be the one thing that will bring the magic of meaning to your life.

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities. I have a lot of faith in the entrepreneurial nature of our 1.25 billion people. There is a lot of capability. And I have a clear road-map to channel it.

Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

There are probably guys who could be superstars but aren't because they didn't work at it.

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they'll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.