Talent Quotes - page 3

Stupidity is a talent for misconception. (Edgar Allan Poe)
If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me. View quote
Pete Seeger
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. View quote
Hermann Hesse
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. View quote
Irwin Shaw
Achievement is talent plus preparation. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. View quote
J. K. Rowling
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? View quote
Jane Austen
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too. View quote
Johnny Depp
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. View quote
Stephen King
I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser. View quote
Joan Crawford
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. View quote
Edward de Bono
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. View quote
Plautus
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Art depends on luck and talent. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something that they are showing the way when they are running away that they see the light when they feel the heat that they are chosen when they are shunned. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. View quote
Sydney Smith
We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. View quote
Mark Twain