Quotes About Talent

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

One thing you never hear is "Man that guy is good at badminton".

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

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.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.