I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
Imogen Cunningham

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

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Gordon Parks

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

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
Dustin Hoffman

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

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

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

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.
Jean Kerr

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Ethel Merman

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.
Norman Jewison

Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
Gene Tierney

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
Jessica Savitch