Quotes and Sayings about Talent
Aldous Huxley: There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Althea Gibson Darben: Talent wins out.
Anonymous: You’re not in competition with anyone but yourself.
Anonymous: A talent is both gift and obligation.
Ava Gardner: After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, “She can’t talk! She can’t act! She’s sensational!”
Bertrand Russell: Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
Cyril Connolly: Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Elsa Maxwell: Keep your talent in the dark and you’ll never be insulted.
Jr. Harry Blackstone: Nothing I do can’t be done by a ten-year-old . . . with fifteen years of practice.
Honoré de Balzac: There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honoré de Balzac: An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
Isaac Stern: A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
John F. Kennedy: I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Matthew 7:6 — Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
Mavis Gallant: I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
Pearl Bailey: There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Robert Half: Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Sugar Ray Leonard: We’ve all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.
Vincent Sheehan: I have always thought that the surest proof of talent is its condescension to genius.
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