Talent Quotes

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

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

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

We are born poets. we become orators.

That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah Montana, but what people don't realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she's 40 years old!

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be confounded. The Man of Genius,referred to mankind, is an originator, an inspired or demonic man, who produces a perfect work in obedience to laws yet unexplored. The artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. There has been no man of pure Genius, as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

When you've got a player who does what he does at that pace this late in the game than you know you've got an invaluable talent.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble. But at some point, you accept the talent that you have, you accept your creativity.

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Talent is important but it is not the key point.

Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

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

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.