Quotes About Talent

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.