The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
Maureen O'Hara

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Tom Wolfe

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.
John Irving

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
Jacques Lacan

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Thomas B. Macaulay

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Ernie Harwell

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Angela Carter

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
Klaus Kinski

I still have my talent to produce and direct.
Marc Wallice

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
Wynton Marsalis

Hope is a talent like any other.
Storm Jameson

Talent is being able to please people.
Marty Robbins

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
Paul Simon

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
Christiane Amanpour

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
George Allen

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
Cyril Connolly

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
Gene Tierney