Quotes About Talent

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

Along with the talent, you also need direction.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

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.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.