1,160 Quotes About Talent

He was good he had talent to burn. I wanted to tell everyone about him - about his writing.

He was good. He had talent to burn. I wanted to tell everyone about him - about his writing.

True merit is like steel and not like cotton, it seems small from outside but weighs heavy inside.

We are very slow in recognising in the peculiar physiognomy of a new writer the type which is labelled 'great talent' in our museum of general ideas. Simply because that physiognomy is new and strange, we can find in it no resemblance to what we are accustomed to call talent. We say rather originality, charm, delicacy, strength; and then one day we add up the sum of these, and find that it amounts simply to talent.

योगः कर्मसु कौशलम्

Remember, there is no expiration date on your talent. I did not publish my first book until I was 35 years old. If you have a story to tell, it doesn't matter when you tell it. Just get it onto the page and let go of the idea that somehow it's less worthwhile because it took you a little longer to get there than it took others.

If you haven’t got the gift no one can give it to you, but if you have you can be taught how to use it.

Greatness is always a byproduct of an obsession.

Being humble does not mean denying being great.