1,160 Quotes About Talent

The peril shadowing every talent is the lure of playing with it for pride.

Don’t leave your gifts, talent or potentials in the raw form

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Lord God, to be born with no talent is bad enough, but to have a macabre and febrile imagination as well is a curse.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity...

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

Just because things change doesn't mean you chose wrong in the first place. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you have to do it forever.