Talent Quotes

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe.

It's not that we don't have talent in our country; the talent is, in fact, not required today.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have!

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

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

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

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

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.