Quotes About Talent

The press often ask me about Messi and Ronaldo and who is the best, but one thing for me is very clear. For me, the No. 1 is Andres Iniesta, because he is my team-mate for Spain, and I can see that he is able to do even more difficult things on the pitch.

Andres Iniesta is the magic man, not just for Barcelona but also for Spain.

Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

Being gifted means facing the next level of depth without ever being repulsed by the curse that comes with the magic of being different.

Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

Art depends on luck and talent.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Character is Power. Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends — there is nothing to compare with it.