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

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando

It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
Barry Bonds

Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Albrecht Durer

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Washington Irving

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

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Gordon Parks

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
Willa Cather

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
Willa Cather

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world.
Katherine Dunham

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
Katherine Dunham

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.
David Hasselhoff

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Michael Caine

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
Igor Stravinsky

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
Robert Redford