Quotes About Talent

I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

The man told Henry that the only native talent needed to play music well was joy.

dyslexics often have a great sense of proportion. They make good sculptors.

Now see, with me, said Louie, tiring suddenly of his daughter's talk, with me I didn't need dance school, matter of fact I used to rule the dance floor!

Everybody has a talent, in some form. There isn't anyone on earth who doesn't have something of value to offer.

If these are 'talents' – the ability to sing, or to quickly comprehend and reproduce musical notation – what kind of a thing is 'talent'? A commodity? A gift? A prize? A reward? For what?

At a certain point you have to leave childish things behind, and one of the childish things is a sense that 'Wow, I can draw' or in my case 'Wow, I can read'... You feel you have what's called a talent, but as you become an adult, if you hope to make things, you have to give up the preoccupation with talent otherwise you'll spend your life painting beautiful pictures of fruit bowls that look like fruit bowls.

No, we will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it. That is one of the strongest laws God ever made.

I appreciated Aaliyah's artistry. We'll never have another like her.

You look at someone like Jadon Sancho, he took the chance of going abroad to get more game time and now he's possibly up there with the top players, wingers, in the world.

I like small actors. They are my absolute favourite.

Carl Pendleton's the absolute best. He's everything you want in a student-athlete.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

When you're in an academy, every day you're in at 9 A.M., and it's, 'Do this, do that,' but we just came with our football.

For me, the youth academy has a fundamental role in every club.

Ajax is the best academy in the world.

Accelerating, dribbling, and creating opportunities are the DNA of my game.

I can do accents really well.

As long as we're great at what we do, we'll be accepted.