Talent Quotes

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...

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...