Quotes About Talent

Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius.

Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success.

None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us.

Turning images from within our minds into reality is a gift we are all born with.

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

When you put your efforts into your gift, you are giving God something to bless.

So many people are missing their way in life because they are afraid to sign the lease on their gift.

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

He is a perfect politician: glib, superficial, manipulative; a great sense of self and a natural talent for a profession for which lying is usually listed at the top of the job decription. In short, the clinical definition of your average sociopath.

I believe you have inside you a core genius… some one thing that you love to do, and do so well, that you hardly feel like doing anything else. It's effortless for you and a whole lot of fun. And if you could make money doing it, you'd make it your lifetime's work. Successful people believe this, too. That's why they put their core genius first. They focus on it—and delegate everything else to other people on their team.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Peter Principle--a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.

If Mozart had been born a Kalahari Bushman, he'd have been known as the best drummer in his family.

When you don't have the skill you need, you hire someone who does; and when you can't do that, you find a way to fake it. Some days I think that explains most of my career.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Elvis had been a truck driver, but John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ray Davies, and Keith Richards were all art college students who tended to think of themselves as artists.

Worry not. Sing your songs with all the earnestness you possess. What is talent but the tongue that never ceases its wag? Look upon us poets and see how we are as dogs in the sun, licking our own behinds with such tender love. Naught else afflicts us but the vapours of our own worries.

Rock stars aren't crapped out of the sky.

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.

I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.