Quotes About Talent

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He's given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball's taught me on and off the court. For the people that I've been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.

By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

My guys studied music from a young age and I did not so I think, like, adding the idiot to the table of very talented musicians gave us a unique rub.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."