Quotes About Talent

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Talent is God-given: be humble. Fame is man-given: be thankful. Conceit is self-given: be careful.

Ability is a poor man's wealth

And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

Im known for impressions and family stories.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.