Quotes About Talent

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. —Albert Einstein

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can

Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

Even supremely able and ambitious men quailed at the thought of Leibniz's powers. "When one ... compares one's own small talents with those of a Leibniz," wrote Denis Diderot, the philosopher/poet who had compiled an encyclopedia of all human knowledge, "one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die peacefully in the depths of some dark corner.

Come on, kids, let's put on a show!

Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage.

It's hard to be humble when you can jump, stunt, and tumble!

Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Reading music is the skill, while interpretation is the gift.

a ausência de talento é uma bênção, verificou ele; só que custa a gente habituar-se a isso. E assumida a sua condição de homem comum reduzido aos raros voos de perdiz de uma poesia ocasional, sem a corcunda da imortalidade agarrada às costas, sentia-se livre para sofrer sem originalidade e dispensado de rodear os seus silêncios da muralha de taciturna inteligência que associava ao génio.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

I had the gift, and arrived at the technique That called up spirits from the vasty deep...

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I always tell people that I am most proud of the fact that the Ushahidi story has provided an inspiration to other techies in Kenya and Africa as an example of the kind of talent the continent holds.

I think Chicago has provided, for quite a long time, a very high level of stand-up comics that make their way out to New York and L.A.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.

'Everwood' I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don't have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They can go from a heartbreaking moment to a humorous moment.

We can't afford to let high performing talent just walk away from our companies without providing an opportunity to work through family needs.

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.