Talent Quotes

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...

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinate...

As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, no...

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can'...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the y...

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the y...

Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that wo...

The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one ca...

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior t...

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sen...

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carri...

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders...

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Be...

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand al...

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in...

All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right...

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it...

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

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

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my...

Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible tal...

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...

She looked as if she were in the middle of posing for an unbelievably glamorous photo shoot. Then ag...

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special...

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was...

I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where hi...

Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute...

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all e...

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat...

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat...

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and t...

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at."When ...

...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to th...

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing i...

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder t...

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.

The doc swore she came out screamin' in the key of E.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not t...

You start off with a little spark, and it's whether or not you nurture that spark. You have to expan...

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer play...