Quotes About Talent

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.

I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

science can get along with talent, but art requires genius.

Genius consists in this, that the knowing faculty has received a considerably greater development than the service of the will demands.

The fundamental condition of genius is an abnormal predominance of sensibility and irritability over reproductive power.

If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity. -- William Blake, The letters of William Blake (1906)

A Horrible thought: could this be the pattern of my life ahead? Every ambition thwarted, every dream stillborn? But a seconds reflection tells me that what I'm currently experiencing is shared by all sentient, suffering human beings, except for the very, very few: the genuinely talented - the odd, rare genius - and, of course, the exceptionally lucky swine.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

She wasn't born for this kind of life. You have to be born for this like you have to be born a butcher or a barber, I guess. Wouldn't anybody be either of them just for money or fun.

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe. (on Mark Twain)

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people...

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people, and protect themselves from talented people . . .

I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans

I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans - Wintermute

May my hands fall from my wrists before I kill an artist like yourself, said the man in black. I would as soon destroy da Vinci. However—and here he clubbed Inigo's head with the butt of his sword—since I can't have you following me either, please understand that I hold you in the highest respect.

We all have defining moments in our lives—meaningful experiences that stand out in our memory. Many of them owe a great deal to chance: A lucky encounter with someone who becomes the love of your life. A new teacher who spots a talent you didn't know you had. A sudden loss that upends the certainties of your life.

The most talented practitioners seek out certification as a Six Sigma Black Belt,9 an honorific that has nothing to do with karate but rather reflects a noble and ultimately hopeless attempt to give the work some sex appeal.