Quotes about Talent

I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

He got the reputation for being a good musician because he drank so much that his friends had to explain him away somehow--

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love letters.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

It takes a talent to doubt, it requires no talent at all to despair (pp515)

I believe that every person is born with talent.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.