Quotes about Talent
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
— Oprah Winfrey
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
— Washington Allston
My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
— Dolly Parton
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
— Victor Hugo
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
— Pope John Paul II
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
— William Hazlitt
I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.
— Ben Stein
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
— Abraham Lincoln
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
— Peter Drucker
You and I and all who love Christ will be qualified to join the eternal chorus, and together our voices will sound across the universe, in one unified statement: "We love Jesus; He is worthy to be praised!"
— David Jeremiah