Quotes on Talent

Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.

Maybe it wasn't the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.

When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.