Talent Quotes - Page 29

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.

You can't rely just on talent to win.

What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

Talent will come out.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

I do hope having done what I did, and America having accepted me the way they did, opens the door for more global talent, which should have representation in global entertainment.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

If you're fortunate to have talent and getting paid for something you love doing. All you've got to do is perform for 90 minutes.

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.