Talent Quotes
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Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
Eugene Delacroix
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It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
Raymond Carver
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It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.
Darnell M. Hunt
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I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.
Noureddine Morceli
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Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.
Rick Perry
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The only class that I was having a hard time with was my art elective. I couldn’t draw worth a damn. I was pretty good at trees. I sucked at drawing faces. But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.
Paul Newman
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
Jonathan Swift
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
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Do you have the heart to push yourself? If you don't, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far. You've got to be hungry. You've got to have heart. That's just reality.
Tiffeny Milbrett
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Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.
Judy Blume
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Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.
William Cullen Bryant
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Carter G. Woodson
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As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.
Christine Caine
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In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.
Shawn Amos
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
Steve Martin
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman R. Augustine
