Hidden Ability Quotes

I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

I just think there are so many more good, talented players.

Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access.

I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

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.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

I'm French, and no one really knows that unless I tell them. So, I can speak French; that's my secret talent.

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

My family didn't come from fame. No one was musical in my family except for me.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

You see a player come through from nowhere every now and again and getting a top club. It shows there are players out there.

Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.

Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. She/he will be ignorant, hasty and shy, and will need hauling out of trouble quite a lot. But she/he will grow up in the course of the Tour. In fact she/he will be the only Companion who will change in any way. Quite often, she/he will soon exhibit a very useful talent for magic and end up by hauling everyone else out of trouble. But this will not be until midway through your second brochure.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

There could be some unknown actor who's a better actor than Ving Rhames, but no one knows that actor, so Ving Rhames will get the job.

They don't know you're secretly a badass?

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.