Talent Quotes

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.