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

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

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

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James

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

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Nolan Ryan

Character is more important than talent.
Edwin Louis Cole

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
Erykah Badu

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
Dan Marino

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
Gwen Stefani

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
Ben Stiller

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.
Robert Capa

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.
Eric Clapton

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Rod Serling

I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
James Brown

Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Desiderius Erasmus

No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Desiderius Erasmus