Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

I always like to say that you've got to... use all your talent.

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead of active. Self-doubt is consuming and cruel. And my hope today is that we can all collectively agree to ban it. . . . Think to the moments of your life when you forgot to doubt yourself. When you were so inspired that you were just living and creating and working. Pay attention to those moments because they're trying to reach you through those lenses of doubt and trying to show you your potential.

Talents used are talents multiplied.

You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish.

Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need not even think about it. So I don't teach creativity, I only teach silence. And then out of that silence much creativity comes. One is surprised oneself at how much one was carrying in one's being, unexpressed, at how great was one's potential. When one comes across it one cannot believes it!

Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.

People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

Money can run out but talent is forever

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.