1,160 Quotes About Talent

You know, with talented people....They draw people to themselves, and without even trying to, they tear them to shreds.

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit back with folded arms, waiting for the book to find him. Talents should not be sought with a microscope, a talent should let people know about itself by striking at all the bells.

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.

Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.

Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.

it's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.