Talent Quotes

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You...

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love an...

If you've got a talent, protect it.

I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresse...

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at ...

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been ...

Okay, so anagrams. That’s one. Got any other charming talents?” she asked, and now he felt confident...

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent...

His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors ac...

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unle...

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared t...

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less ta...

What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...

It takes brains not to make money,” Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regul...

My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (...

Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)Me plus you. (Imma tell y...

Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can pl...

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for th...

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experienc...

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized spor...

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Y...

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit sp...

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing...

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious ...

Then it was that Jo, living in the darkened room, with that suffering little sister always before he...

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if ...

The impression given us by a person or a work (or an interpretation of a work) of marked individuali...

But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superi...

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The...

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of f...

If we're talented at music, that talent is of god.  If something makes our heart sing, that's god's ...

I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I ...

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison o...

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how ea...

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally ob...

You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then...

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, whic...

What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation...

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or ...

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the ...

That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitatio...

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich.""Money and talent aren't the same thing.""Tha...

What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecess...

Hence there is no free admission to the process of enlightenment - it is always paid at a psycho-tra...

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a s...

To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, ...

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes p...

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent f...

Talent works, genius creates.

The concept of encounter also enables us to make clearer the important distinction between talent an...

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagin...

A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument hand...

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living bein...

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like produc...

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people wit...

The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is...

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't b...

I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams of childhood trauma—that becoming a...

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until i...

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

He kept seeing the brains dribbling down the wallpaper. It wasn’t the killing that stayed on his min...

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it some...

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to trai...

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering ...

What's talent but the ability to get away with something?

Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can...

Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermos...

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed....

You have to be clear what your message is and what you're doing. I mean, Miley Cyrus is an amazing t...

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn...

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in lif...

I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it.

Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes —...

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salie...