Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)
Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)
“I think music is like my only talent.”
Alessia Cara (1996) Canadian singer
Interview with Universal Music Korea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI68Ue0sPfo (October 2018)
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
To Barack Obama, as quoted in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006), Ch. 5
Context: I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I’d been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can’t run very fast. I’m not particularly strong. I’d probably end up as some wild animal’s dinner.
But I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the financial system to let me do what I love doing — and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.
“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Ronnie Drew (1934–2008) Irish musician
Source: Ronnie (2008, posthumous), p. 196; Quoting from Sunday Times, June 2000
“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”
Joseph Roux (1834–1905) French poet
Part 4, LXXXVIII
Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)