Quotes About Talent

It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.

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

To every man according to his ability.

The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger.... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated, why, it's just as good as sex.

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight, seeing them as they are, without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

Christabel Pankhurst

What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Conciseness is the sister of talent.

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