Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
Jose Marti

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Jose Marti

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You can never have enough talent.
Pat Riley

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

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
Franklin P. Jones

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
Neil Young

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
Toni Morrison

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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

The talent is in the choices.
Robert De Niro

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

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri Frederic Amiel

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
Vladimir Nabokov

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Jeanne Moreau

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Jeanne Moreau

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
Jean Anouilh

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