Talent Quotes

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

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

Character is more important than talent.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

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

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

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

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.