Talent Quotes

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
Will Smith

Above, Average, Talented

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian

Person, Off, Show

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Greatest, Person

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Will Smith

Practice, Ridiculous, Insane

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand

Money, Men, Stupidity

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
John Wooden

Experience, Rather

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Character, Human

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Great, Execution

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
Clint Eastwood

Age, Important, Able

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
Joan Crawford

Important, Woman, Her

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What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Education, Money, Looks

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
Hillary Clinton

Women, Largest, Reservoir

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley

Industry, Virtues, Substitute

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball

Regret, System, Studio

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Science, Yourself, Give

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
Dean Koontz

Life, Everyone, Succeed

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali

Love, Good, Great

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
Carroll O'Connor

Both, Gift, Artists

Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you've got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Great, Power

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse

Happiness, Object

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle

Heart, Color, Cut

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen

Happy, May, Study

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

Human, Sometimes, Between

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Denis Waitley

Success, Attitude, Winner

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Great, Honesty, Hypocrisy

No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Desiderius Erasmus

Respects, Concealed

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

Great, Today, Nothing

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

Great, Men, Courage

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