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Quotes About Talent

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.
~ Paulo Coelho
Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.
~ Joan Crawford
I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
~ Edith Evans
I'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.
~ Hulk Hogan
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
~ Bob Lilly
There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".
~ John Denver
Paul McCartney's dad told him that when he was a kid. "Son, play the piano and when you go to parties, the girls will come to you."
~ Anthony Kiedis
Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.
~ Jackson Browne
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.
~ Mose Allison
My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
~ Rod Stewart
My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.
~ Gordie Howe
Dad always says that I could sing before I could talk
~ Miley Cyrus
In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].
~ Milo Ventimiglia
My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.
~ Bill Hader
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You just Sanisa in the death overs. He is simply the best in the world.
~ Alastair Cook
The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.
~ Bob Newhart
Everybody's trapped in the thing he does best.
~ Philip Roth
Cruzaban por su mente los mismos pensamientos, inútiles para un hombre como él, sin gran talento, aunque no para Sófocles: lo accidental que es el sino, o lo accidental que todo puede parecer cuando es ineludible.
~ Philip Roth
The one undeniable talent that talking heads have is their skill at telling a compelling story with conviction, and that is enough.
~ Philip Tetlock
God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.
~ Philip Yancey
People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.
~ Philip Yancey