Talent Quotes
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Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
Paul Gauguin
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
Dolly Parton
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People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.
Hillary Clinton
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Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.
Paul Pierce
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
Nick Saban
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We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
Erica Jong
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Let me show that I have that talent.
Helio Castroneves
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I was born with this talent, so I've just worked hard, and now it's gone well for me. But I'm not going to lie - I didn't expect to be top of the Premier League.
Riyad Mahrez
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Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.
Red Auerbach
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Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.
Stephen Fry
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At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.
Charles Baxter
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Carter G. Woodson
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I think people of lesser talent will become stars.
Howard Stern
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Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better I would love to be a writer.
Shiloh Fernandez
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When I dreamt of being a footballer I dreamt of being a forward, but I wasn't talented enough.
Thiago Silva
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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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When I was six I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.
Nico Mirallegro
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(Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.
George Will
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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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If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.
Nick Cannon
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Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.
Sebastian Horsley