Quotes about Talent

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

You're gifted to do something.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

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.

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.

There are a lot of directors I'd still love to work with. Paul Thomas Anderson is someone I'd love to work with. I think Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is very talented. Ang Lee is very talented. I mean, there are a lot of people. There are many great directors out there.

King James was brilliant. He was the greatest king who ever sat on the British throne. Who else among royalty, in his time, would have had the giant talent to write Shakespeare's works? It was he who poetically fixed the Bible - which in itself and in its present King James version enslaved the world.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.