Jean Cocteau Quotes

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.

I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You've got to find what that is. Most often what you truly understand makes you unique is something that you're also going to build passion around.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.

There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

I mean, I've definitely found my thing, what I'm good at. Certain things that guys do keep them in the NBA a long time, but I've found what I'm good at, and I'm only going to continue to get better at that.

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

What it is you do, no one else does. Just hone in on it, and just get better and greater.

When I was younger, I used to think that my unconventional upbringing was a weakness, but over the past few years, I've learnt to see it as one of my greatest strengths.

My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.

It came naturally to find out what I did best, which was to write songs and sing well.