Quotes About Talent

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

Genius: the superhuman in man.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.