I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
William Faulkner

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.
Julie Christie

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

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

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
George Lucas

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

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong

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

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
Layne Staley

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Desiderius Erasmus