1,160 Quotes About Talent

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

If talent without hard work was a dead-end street,talent with hard work could only be a highway.

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.

LATENT TALENTAnagram of complacencyKamil Ali

We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance of her job as guest managing editor, and because she was kept fast at her desk when the rest of us were allowed to fool around….I remember we discussed how the editors treater her differently from the rest of us, as if she had been pre-recognized as someone they were expecting great things of.

MIND & GRINDSelf-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers

He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.

No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English."[The Instrumentalities of the Night: An Interview with Glen Cook, The SF Site, September 2005]