Quotes About Talent

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.

Genius is nourished from within and without.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents.

you never know your true genius untill you do what you love

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.

I do listen fairly well, though, a talent people often mistake for trustworthiness.

but they are commonly more distinguished by their superiority in the latter than in the former. Their

But more important than all these lovely features of gracious living was the camaraderie of the young residents, who aspired to better lives on the wings of their talent and creativity.

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.