Quotes about Talent

Flawed genius is better than flawless talent.

Talent is the seed, hard work is the stem, perseverance is the branch, and success is the fruit.

Thus, far from thinking that works produced by man's own talent and energy are in opposition to God's power, and that the rational creature exists as a kind of rival to the Creator, Christians are convinced that the triumphs of the human race are a sign of God's grace and the flowering of His own mysterious design.

You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

I had little talent for happiness.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.