Talent Quotes - page 2

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. (Willa Cather)

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Willa Cather

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Leo Buscaglia

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

James Baldwin

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

Oscar Wilde

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

Jules Renard

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Jonathan Swift

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

Rahul Dravid

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. (John Wooden)

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.

Albert Einstein

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

John F. Kennedy

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Honoré de Balzac

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

Richard Donner

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had. (Berry Gordy)

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

José Martí

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Mel Brooks

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it.

Lin Carter

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