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Talent Quotes

Talent Definition  
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Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.
Brett Favre

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Norman Rockwell

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley

There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Alfred Adler

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Carter G. Woodson

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Freddie Mercury

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

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
Lawrence Halprin

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
Charles Barkley

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
Wanda Sykes

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

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

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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