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Quotes About Talent

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.
~ Jacob Bronowski
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.
~ Jerry Reed
I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.
~ John Legend
I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.
~ John Legend
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
~ John Steinbeck
I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.
~ Jon Stewart
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
~ Jonathan Swift
To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
~ Judd Apatow
You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.
~ Julia Quinn
I should have blown this mic like I said I might Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.
~ Kwame
It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .
~ Melvin Helitzer
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
~ Moliere
I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.
~ Paul McCartney
As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
~ Phil Hartman
So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.
~ Plato
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
~ Olga Kurylenko
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!
~ Robert Genn
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
~ Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
~ Samuel Johnson
I dribble rhymes like basketball... People call me 'E.T.' What's that, Shaq man? 'Extra Tall.'
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
~ Thomas A. Bailey