Quotes About Talent

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

Messi or Cristiano - Speed? Cristiano. Shot? Cristiano. Dribbling? Messi. Intelligence? Messi. Talent? Messi. Winner is Messi!

People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

Winning or losing can be attributed to one of four factors: ability, effort

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I don't want to be known for my face. I want to be known for my work.

The most skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind.

we have little empirical knowledge about the connection between merit and success

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation.

Talent, réussite, succès font de vous un ennemi de l'espèce humaine qui, à mesure qu'elle vous admire plus, se reconnaît moins en vous et préfère vous tenir à distance. Seuls les escrocs, par l'origine triviale de leur fortune, l'acquièrent sans se couper de leurs semblables et même en s'attirant leur sympathie.

She was the living effigy of everything we will never be and, in every sense of the word, she was the retard that I was and that I wasn't, she was my vanishing, wasted talent, and I was the price society paid so that I could become what she couldn't. And this was exactly what I was trying to love; what this little girl, this girl of wire, made it known she could never be; everthing that had been, or that would be no matter who we were, borne away from each of us.

It was exciting for him to be good at something after a lifetime of mediocrity in Tamaulipas.

You have a rare and marvelous gift with words.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

We've all got our own areas of expertise.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.