Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Paula Abdul

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

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

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

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
Eddie Murphy

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

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Jack Nicklaus

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
Jack Nicklaus

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
Kevin Bacon

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard