Quotes About Talent

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

The drumming helps a lot when I'm producing songs or writing songs. My knowledge of drums helps more in that aspect, (although) I don't know, man; I'm not great at any of them.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.