Talent Quotes

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Maya Angelou

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Uta Hagen

Blessed are those who have no talent!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

Steve Maraboli

You not sell your talent, your genius; as soon as you do, you are a prostitute. You sell your work, but not your soul.

Leo Tolstoy

Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Stephen King

I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.

Martin Ritt

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Pearl Bailey

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

Mal Pancoast

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.

Aldous Huxley

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

Henry David Thoreau

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Eric Hoffer

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

Jack Nicklaus

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

Mickey Rourke

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

Ralph Waldo Emerson