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

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 also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
Gustav Mahler

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

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

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

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
Mason Cooley

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.
Roger Miller

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Talent will come out.
Ray Walston

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.
Alex O'Loughlin

Detroit is full of talent.
Martha Reeves

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.
Bryant H. McGill