Quotes About Talent

I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors possess little enough.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.

I had never previously met him, but I had seen him and knew his name well, because he was one of those persons who, from their earliest years, are marked down to do great things; and who so often remain a legend at school, or university, for a period of time after leaving the one or the other: sometimes long after any hope remains, among the world at large, that promise of earlier years will be fulfilled.

I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all the undertakings of life; but then, after all, plenty of actors possess little enough.

Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Some men have a great gift of making money, but they can't spend it. Others can't put two shillings together, but they have a great talent for all sorts of outlay. I begin to think that my genius is wholly in the latter line.

You can't alter a man's nature. Oswald was born to be a master of hounds, and you were born to be a Secretary of State.

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Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholics?

Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.

There may be something of the amateur in all great artists.

Jan had always been a good pianist—and now he was the finest in the world.

No need to go to the dolphins," interjected Max Brailovsky. "One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he'd won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!

La vision, le goût, l'esprit visionnaire, l'invention véritable et le talent sont des qualités que peut aider, mais que ne remplacera jamais la plus intelligente des machines pensantes jamais conçues par l'homme.

We can be sure of tale; We can only pray for genius

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

Some people without possesing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it

L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout

I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.