Quotes about Talent
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
- Isabel Allende
I think I'm just proudest to be the lady who was asked to play Mary Poppins. She's such a wonderful character, and there's so much tremendous talent out there. So I feel very lucky to be the one who got to play her.
- Julie Andrews
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
- Oscar Wilde
At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
- Albert Schweitzer
There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.
- Paul Graham
People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.
- Tim Henman
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
- John Updike
You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
- LeBron James
You're gifted to do something.
- Karen Kingsbury
My oomph factor helped me enter B-town. I have a naturally gifted body.
- Payal Rohatgi
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
- Margaret Atwood