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Quotes About Ability

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
~ George Allen, Sr.
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
~ Karen Kain
I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.
~ Darren Star
Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.
~ Francis Herbert Hedge
I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
~ John Wooden
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
~ Charles Babbage
I always like to say that you've got to... use all your talent.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
A lot of people don't realize the skills and talent that I have.
~ Gervonta Davis
It goes without saying that when it came to musical talent, George was in a completely different league to me - as he was to most people!
~ Andrew Ridgeley
Stefan Struve's an amazing talent.
~ Michael Bisping
I don't think one film is enough to showcase your talent or to show your abilities as an actor.
~ Kriti Sanon
Singing well is a talent, which many people may not have.
~ Neha Bhasin
My dad passed on his cricketing talent. My mum has enabled me to use it.
~ Jonny Bairstow
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
~ Dennis Potter
I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.
~ George Clooney
Talent is talent.
~ Jimmy Iovine
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
~ Calvin Trillin
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.
~ Robert Shea
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
~ Damian Lewis
With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Without the Spirit, you will never succeed, regardless of your talent and ability.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.
~ Tim Buckley