Quotes about Talent

Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps.

Some of my best men are women!

I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

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.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I will always be dedicated to the talented men and women at our headquarters in Brooklyn and across the country.