Quotes about Talent

I know what it's like to have a No. 1 pick and having everybody picking at him all of the time.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I have the talent to do it. I'm going to do it because I have something important to say to the world. I refuse to let anything get in my way.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when it comes to the Eagles, he's there to play guitar, and he's there to supply whatever is needed for that band, and that is what I feel with Metallica.

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]